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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... European versus Middle Eastern . Vietnam too . Else- where , the identitarian elements of violent conflict are more explicit : Igbo against Yoruba in Nigeria , Catholic against Protestant in Ireland . It is the same politics of identity ...
... European versus Middle Eastern . Vietnam too . Else- where , the identitarian elements of violent conflict are more explicit : Igbo against Yoruba in Nigeria , Catholic against Protestant in Ireland . It is the same politics of identity ...
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... European , Indian , Hindu , Muslim , 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 ...
... European , Indian , Hindu , Muslim , 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 ...
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... Europe of Descartes ' charter of universalism : ' Reason ... is found whole and entire in each man " " ( Nandy , Traditions , 32 ) -a repudiation that has continued in cur- rent academic fashions . Samir Amin has argued that “ Without a ...
... Europe of Descartes ' charter of universalism : ' Reason ... is found whole and entire in each man " " ( Nandy , Traditions , 32 ) -a repudiation that has continued in cur- rent academic fashions . Samir Amin has argued that “ Without a ...
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... European colonies which emerges from an appropriate sort of cultural encounter - not only early settler literature ... Europeans do not , however , exhaust all relevant cases . Somewhere between these lie what we might refer to as ...
... European colonies which emerges from an appropriate sort of cultural encounter - not only early settler literature ... Europeans do not , however , exhaust all relevant cases . Somewhere between these lie what we might refer to as ...
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... Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of this , their treatment of identity is in some ways more paradigmatic of the colonial condition than is that of lighter - skinned south Asians or , even more obviously , the Irish . Indeed ...
... Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of this , their treatment of identity is in some ways more paradigmatic of the colonial condition than is that of lighter - skinned south Asians or , even more obviously , the Irish . Indeed ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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