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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... Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 83 Chapter Four Culture and Despair : Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 103 Chapter Five Worship and ...
... Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 83 Chapter Four Culture and Despair : Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 103 Chapter Five Worship and ...
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... Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain , a work that is structured by an analytic of attitudes toward cultural identity . The play is a narrative dialectic in which characters take up and enact one attitude toward identity ( e.g. , one type ...
... Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain , a work that is structured by an analytic of attitudes toward cultural identity . The play is a narrative dialectic in which characters take up and enact one attitude toward identity ( e.g. , one type ...
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... Walcott and Rhys , taking up instead the more ordinary prac- tices and beliefs of daily life , the ways people ... Walcott's play , broader in their treatment of cultural identity . However , in these cases , the function of that breadth ...
... Walcott and Rhys , taking up instead the more ordinary prac- tices and beliefs of daily life , the ways people ... Walcott's play , broader in their treatment of cultural identity . However , in these cases , the function of that breadth ...
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... Walcott puts it , the " West Indian feels rootless on his own earth " ( " What the Twilight Says , " 21 ) . Indeed , in some cases from the Caribbean , the alienation is so severe that it might more appropriately be referred to as ...
... Walcott puts it , the " West Indian feels rootless on his own earth " ( " What the Twilight Says , " 21 ) . Indeed , in some cases from the Caribbean , the alienation is so severe that it might more appropriately be referred to as ...
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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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