A post- colonial reading of the story of Man- Man from Miguel Street by V.S. Nailpaul in the light of Homi K.Bhabha's views about mimicry reveals that to some extent mimicry in Naipaul's post-colonial writing reflects the double edged effect of mimicry discussed by Bhabha, but is more associated with the hopelessness and predicament suffered by the once colonized than the resistance to the authority of the colonizer.
