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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... Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ...
... Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ...
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... economic , for she portrays both the use and the effect of culture - European or indigenous — as a function of class . Ultimately , for Hosain , the most important problems are not those of social custom , but of economic empowerment ...
... economic , for she portrays both the use and the effect of culture - European or indigenous — as a function of class . Ultimately , for Hosain , the most important problems are not those of social custom , but of economic empowerment ...
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... economic domination . This direct domination need not be in place currently ( i.e. , the colony may have achieved independence ) . However , direct domination must have continued for a long enough period to establish lasting political ...
... economic domination . This direct domination need not be in place currently ( i.e. , the colony may have achieved independence ) . However , direct domination must have continued for a long enough period to establish lasting political ...
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... economic power was either monopolized by the 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 ...
... economic power was either monopolized by the 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 ...
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... economic status , and so on . These differences can impede , and sometimes undermine , the preservation of what is common . For exam- ple , if all Yoruba share a particular ritual , then that ritual may be prac- ticed in the contact ...
... economic status , and so on . These differences can impede , and sometimes undermine , the preservation of what is common . For exam- ple , if all Yoruba share a particular ritual , then that ritual may be prac- ticed in the contact ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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