Mimicry in Cary's Mister Johnson:Cultural Hybridity
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Mostly, people have innate respect, reverence and love towards their culture of
origin. When it comes to the clash of cultures, people face a situation of mimicry.
Joyce Cary'sMister Johnsonis an account of cultural hybridity of Mister Johnson,
protagonist of the novel. His character is created by the tension between innate desire
and colonized mind. In such a situation neither he can fully negate/forget his original
African culture nor can fully escape away from the culture of the British which is
ruling the natives in African colony.