Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the CaribbeanThis book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard isolation of mimeticism and hybridity—and criticizing Homi Bhabha's influential treatment of the former—Hogan offers a lucid, usable theoretical structure for analysis of the postcolonial phenomena, with ramifications extending beyond postcolonial literature. Developing this structure in relation to major texts by Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Buchi Emecheta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Attia Hosain, Hogan also provides crucial cultural background for understanding these and other works from the same traditions. |
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... Christian Coalition here , Hindu parties in India , Muslim parties in Algeria . Indeed , cultural identity is broader even than politics - art and education and personal affinities are pervaded by its incarnations : racial identity ...
... Christian Coalition here , Hindu parties in India , Muslim parties in Algeria . Indeed , cultural identity is broader even than politics - art and education and personal affinities are pervaded by its incarnations : racial identity ...
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... Christian spirituality , and through Afro - Caribbean artistic traditions . Emecheta too addresses the loss of indigenous masculinity after colonization , but her greatest concern is with the way colonization has degraded the condition ...
... Christian spirituality , and through Afro - Caribbean artistic traditions . Emecheta too addresses the loss of indigenous masculinity after colonization , but her greatest concern is with the way colonization has degraded the condition ...
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... Christian , Igbo , or whatever . In choosing literary works , I have for the most part confined myself to literature written in English . Gora , which was written in Bengali , is the only exception . This work treats the issue of ...
... Christian , Igbo , or whatever . In choosing literary works , I have for the most part confined myself to literature written in English . Gora , which was written in Bengali , is the only exception . This work treats the issue of ...
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... Christianity , " introduc [ ing ] into Hinduism the principles of organization , proslytiza- tion , specialized priestly orders , the concept of religion as a principle of political mobilization , a hard sense of history and even , in ...
... Christianity , " introduc [ ing ] into Hinduism the principles of organization , proslytiza- tion , specialized priestly orders , the concept of religion as a principle of political mobilization , a hard sense of history and even , in ...
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... Christianity , English literature , and so on . Though the colonial situation limits the degree to which assimilation is possible in either direction , there are , I think , many cases where it occurs . This is particularly true if one ...
... Christianity , English literature , and so on . Though the colonial situation limits the degree to which assimilation is possible in either direction , there are , I think , many cases where it occurs . This is particularly true if one ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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