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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Page xi
... conflict are more explicit : Igbo against Yoruba in Nigeria , Catholic against Protestant in Ireland . It is the same politics of identity in each case , whether admitted or not . Of course , the effects are not confined to brute force ...
... conflict are more explicit : Igbo against Yoruba in Nigeria , Catholic against Protestant in Ireland . It is the same politics of identity in each case , whether admitted or not . Of course , the effects are not confined to brute force ...
Page xvii
... conflict . Either I ask others to pay no attention to my skin , or else I want them to be aware of it . I try then to find value for what is bad - since I have unthinkingly con- ceded that the black man is the color of evil . In order ...
... conflict . Either I ask others to pay no attention to my skin , or else I want them to be aware of it . I try then to find value for what is bad - since I have unthinkingly con- ceded that the black man is the color of evil . In order ...
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... conflict in which the dominant society claims cultural and racial superiority and justifies its domination by reference to this putative superiority . Finally , each group - colonizer and colonized - retains a geographical domain in ...
... conflict in which the dominant society claims cultural and racial superiority and justifies its domination by reference to this putative superiority . Finally , each group - colonizer and colonized - retains a geographical domain in ...
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... conflicts are so strong and pervasive that they constitute a challenge to one's cultural identity , and thus one's personal identity . As we shall discuss in more detail in the following chapters , identity . is best thought of as ...
... conflicts are so strong and pervasive that they constitute a challenge to one's cultural identity , and thus one's personal identity . As we shall discuss in more detail in the following chapters , identity . is best thought of as ...
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... conflicts in one's self - understanding , aspiration , expectation , action , etc. , leaving one almost entirely unable to take coherent action toward humanly fulfilling goals - and thus in effect requiring that one take some sort of ...
... conflicts in one's self - understanding , aspiration , expectation , action , etc. , leaving one almost entirely unable to take coherent action toward humanly fulfilling goals - and thus in effect requiring that one take some sort of ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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