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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... 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 , ethnic identity , religious ...
... 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 , ethnic identity , religious ...
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... 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 . This work treats ...
... 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 . This work treats ...
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... a fourth subvariable , the degree to which a tradition may be continued at a distance from the autonomous region . Consider , for example , the difference between Hindu and Igbo practices . LITERATURES OF COLONIAL CONTACT 7.
... a fourth subvariable , the degree to which a tradition may be continued at a distance from the autonomous region . Consider , for example , the difference between Hindu and Igbo practices . LITERATURES OF COLONIAL CONTACT 7.
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... Hindu and Igbo practices . Much Hindu ritual is performed within a family , and thus does not require a large com- munity . In contrast , as Isichei points out , in Igboland , " Traditional reli- gion is essentially local - tied to this ...
... Hindu and Igbo practices . Much Hindu ritual is performed within a family , and thus does not require a large com- munity . In contrast , as Isichei points out , in Igboland , " Traditional reli- gion is essentially local - tied to this ...
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... Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of medicine . Indeed , there is a highly developed Hindu science of medicine . To make use of the benefits of Western med- icine would thus count as " modernizing , " in my sense ...
... Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of medicine . Indeed , there is a highly developed Hindu science of medicine . To make use of the benefits of Western med- icine would thus count as " modernizing , " in my sense ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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