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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... colo- nized society . This is , indeed , the most fundamental division , which one must draw in anatomizing postcolonization literature : literature written by members of the oppressor group ( i.e. , the English ) and literature written ...
... colo- nized society . This is , indeed , the most fundamental division , which one must draw in anatomizing postcolonization literature : literature written by members of the oppressor group ( i.e. , the English ) and literature written ...
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... colo- nial government , whereas Pratt's contact zone would be the area least firmly controlled . It is also worth mentioning that , in the region of contact , the rela- tions between the colonizers and the colonized are often partially ...
... colo- nial government , whereas Pratt's contact zone would be the area least firmly controlled . It is also worth mentioning that , in the region of contact , the rela- tions between the colonizers and the colonized are often partially ...
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... colo- nizers - their widespread control of the structure of work , their system of education , and so on - impels one to accept the colonial categories , their implications and practical consequences . This can give rise to very sharp ...
... colo- nizers - their widespread control of the structure of work , their system of education , and so on - impels one to accept the colonial categories , their implications and practical consequences . This can give rise to very sharp ...
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... not on tradition per se , but rather on the colo- nial , ideological misrepresentation of that tradition . It is typical of the reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know 121 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... not on tradition per se , but rather on the colo- nial , ideological misrepresentation of that tradition . It is typical of the reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know 121 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... colo- nialism as living in as state of nature , acting from a sort of brute spon- taneity . When an indigenous person takes up this sort of stereotype , it hardly makes sense to refer to this as " traditionalism . " In this case , I ...
... colo- nialism as living in as state of nature , acting from a sort of brute spon- taneity . When an indigenous person takes up this sort of stereotype , it hardly makes sense to refer to this as " traditionalism . " In this case , I ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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