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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... Contact : Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism ... Culture and Despair : Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 103 Chapter Five Worship and " Manness " : Earl Lovelace's The ...
... Contact : Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism ... Culture and Despair : Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 103 Chapter Five Worship and " Manness " : Earl Lovelace's The ...
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... cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial situation ( metropolitan tradition , indigenous tradition , various syncretistic " contact cultures " ) , and the different atti- tudes people in the colonial ...
... cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial situation ( metropolitan tradition , indigenous tradition , various syncretistic " contact cultures " ) , and the different atti- tudes people in the colonial ...
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... context of an expected future . Specifically , Things Fall Apart explores the ways in which colonial contact distorts Igbo culture in gen- eral , and Igbo gender identity in particular . This distortion , though sometimes subtle , is so ...
... context of an expected future . Specifically , Things Fall Apart explores the ways in which colonial contact distorts Igbo culture in gen- eral , and Igbo gender identity in particular . This distortion , though sometimes subtle , is so ...
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... culture discussed in the follow- ing pages is postcolonial . I would be the last one to object that a term has some sort of intrinsic meaning and that people cannot define a term as ... CONTACT Cultural Geography and the INTRODUCTION xix.
... culture discussed in the follow- ing pages is postcolonial . I would be the last one to object that a term has some sort of intrinsic meaning and that people cannot define a term as ... CONTACT Cultural Geography and the INTRODUCTION xix.
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... contact , which is to say , the region of settle- ment where colonizers live in close interaction with the colonized peo- ple . Finally , we may isolate an indigenous region or region of cultural autonomy involving little contact with ...
... contact , which is to say , the region of settle- ment where colonizers live in close interaction with the colonized peo- ple . Finally , we may isolate an indigenous region or region of cultural autonomy involving little contact with ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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