Tag: Mimicry

  • Mimicry, Belonging and Violence in R. F. Kuang’s Babel

    by Kristína Szegediová The main theme of R. F. Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution is a critique of British colonialism. The novel takes place in the 19ᵗʰ century where British progress is owed to silver-working, a type of magic that relies on match-pairs between languages…