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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... Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the ...
... Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the ...
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... Moreover , Tagore was part of Anglophone , and even English , literary culture . He not only read widely in English litera- ture ( Gora is in part a response to Kipling's Kim [ see Pandit ] ) . He trans- lated some of his own work into ...
... Moreover , Tagore was part of Anglophone , and even English , literary culture . He not only read widely in English litera- ture ( Gora is in part a response to Kipling's Kim [ see Pandit ] ) . He trans- lated some of his own work into ...
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... Moreover , universalism is not merely a conceptual stance . It has been of practical importance among anticolonial activists . For example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see ...
... Moreover , universalism is not merely a conceptual stance . It has been of practical importance among anticolonial activists . For example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see ...
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... moreover , during this period , the dominated society remains numerically and culturally prevalent in its own geographical location , and the dominant society justifies its control through the denigration of the dominated culture and ...
... moreover , during this period , the dominated society remains numerically and culturally prevalent in its own geographical location , and the dominant society justifies its control through the denigration of the dominated culture and ...
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... Moreover , perhaps even more than African writers , black Caribbean writers - whose ancestors were almost all slaves - have been faced with the justificatory racism and ethnocentrism of Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of ...
... Moreover , perhaps even more than African writers , black Caribbean writers - whose ancestors were almost all slaves - have been faced with the justificatory racism and ethnocentrism of Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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