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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... Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood 173 Chapter Seven Orthodoxy and Universalism : Rabindranath Tagore's Gora 213 Chapter Eight The Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the ...
... Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood 173 Chapter Seven Orthodoxy and Universalism : Rabindranath Tagore's Gora 213 Chapter Eight The Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the ...
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... Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood , explore a narrower range of attitudes , but they do so in more detail . They also share a con- sistent focus on gender . In the first chapter , I follow the common practice of dividing post ...
... Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood , explore a narrower range of attitudes , but they do so in more detail . They also share a con- sistent focus on gender . In the first chapter , I follow the common practice of dividing post ...
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... Emecheta too addresses the loss of indigenous masculinity after colonization , but her greatest concern is with the way colonization has degraded the condition of indigenous women . In each case , the author examines how the development ...
... Emecheta too addresses the loss of indigenous masculinity after colonization , but her greatest concern is with the way colonization has degraded the condition of indigenous women . In each case , the author examines how the development ...
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Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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