Colonial Mimesis: The Aesthetics of Anti-colonial Critique in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

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Brief Overview

This paper reads Paradise Lost through oriental motifs to elucidate how Milton’s mimetic conception of history exposes the epistemological limits of early anti-colonial critique, in which colonies are imagined as replicants of metropolitan despotism.

Author

• Marlon James Waddell, University of Oxford