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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... Colonial Contact : Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism : Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean ...
... Colonial Contact : Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism : Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean ...
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... colonialism - its historical causes , its ideological justifications , its con- tinuing effects - and with struggles against colonialism . In the following pages , I have set out to analyze the issue of cultural identity - the structure ...
... colonialism - its historical causes , its ideological justifications , its con- tinuing effects - and with struggles against colonialism . In the following pages , I have set out to analyze the issue of cultural identity - the structure ...
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... colonial condition aimed at clarifying what regions are relevant to the current study and in what way they are relevant . Following this , it distinguishes the primary cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial ...
... colonial condition aimed at clarifying what regions are relevant to the current study and in what way they are relevant . Following this , it distinguishes the primary cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial ...
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... colonial structure . Her final madness is , in effect , the manifestation of this denial . Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism ...
... colonial structure . Her final madness is , in effect , the manifestation of this denial . Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism ...
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... colonial critics and theorists have claimed that colonialism is universal- ist . For example , in a recent collection , Ashcroft , Griffiths , and Tiffin devote one section to the critique of universalism as an ideological source of the ...
... colonial critics and theorists have claimed that colonialism is universal- ist . For example , in a recent collection , Ashcroft , Griffiths , and Tiffin devote one section to the critique of universalism as an ideological source of the ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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