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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... colonialist ethnocentrism are anti - universalist , for they necessarily assume profound and consequen- tial differences between peoples and / or between cultures . Yet many post- colonial critics and theorists have claimed that ...
... colonialist ethnocentrism are anti - universalist , for they necessarily assume profound and consequen- tial differences between peoples and / or between cultures . Yet many post- colonial critics and theorists have claimed that ...
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... colonialists themselves , or unevenly shared with a politically impotent class of pariah ( non - native ) businessmen- Lebanese , Indian and Arab in colonial Africa " ( 116 ) . This colonial division - sometimes exacerbated by extreme ...
... colonialists themselves , or unevenly shared with a politically impotent class of pariah ( non - native ) businessmen- Lebanese , Indian and Arab in colonial Africa " ( 116 ) . This colonial division - sometimes exacerbated by extreme ...
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... colonialist views of indigenous culture . Most often , the stereotypes in question involve specific views about the nature of indigenous traditions . But sometimes the stereotype is even cruder than this , for it in effect represents ...
... colonialist views of indigenous culture . Most often , the stereotypes in question involve specific views about the nature of indigenous traditions . But sometimes the stereotype is even cruder than this , for it in effect represents ...
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... Colonialists who promulgated this view stressed or fabri- cated elements of indigenous culture putatively indicative of effeminacy ( passivity , weakness , irrationality , wiliness , etc. ) and elements of metro- politan culture ...
... Colonialists who promulgated this view stressed or fabri- cated elements of indigenous culture putatively indicative of effeminacy ( passivity , weakness , irrationality , wiliness , etc. ) and elements of metro- politan culture ...
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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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