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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Page vii
... Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have presented earlier versions of this work ...
... Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have presented earlier versions of this work ...
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... considerations of shared or share- able culture , in the case of Tagore , or globally stratified political econ- omy , in the case of Hosain . Like Dream on Monkey Mountain , Rabindranath Tagore's Gora provides INTRODUCTION xiii.
... considerations of shared or share- able culture , in the case of Tagore , or globally stratified political econ- omy , in the case of Hosain . Like Dream on Monkey Mountain , Rabindranath Tagore's Gora provides INTRODUCTION xiii.
Page xiv
... Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column . This novel takes up most of the cultural concerns addressed in the preceding works , but it does so in relation to a systematically mate- rialist , indeed , Marxist analysis . Hosain's treatment of ...
... Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column . This novel takes up most of the cultural concerns addressed in the preceding works , but it does so in relation to a systematically mate- rialist , indeed , Marxist analysis . Hosain's treatment of ...
Page xv
... Hosain's views . Though both are important , the second is the more cru- cial . Individual empathy or an affirmation of shared world culture become insignificant , almost a mockery , when the practitioners of one culture live in ...
... Hosain's views . Though both are important , the second is the more cru- cial . Individual empathy or an affirmation of shared world culture become insignificant , almost a mockery , when the practitioners of one culture live in ...
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... Hosain , Ngũgĩ , and so on — a commitment to universalism . This commitment animates my reading of every writer considered in the following pages , and under- writes the project as a whole . Indeed , my analysis of each individual work ...
... Hosain , Ngũgĩ , and so on — a commitment to universalism . This commitment animates my reading of every writer considered in the following pages , and under- writes the project as a whole . Indeed , my analysis of each individual work ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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