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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... ethical universalism , and cultural universalism . The second , democratic socialism , is closer to Hosain's views . Though both are important , the second is the more cru- cial . Individual empathy or an affirmation of shared world ...
... ethical universalism , and cultural universalism . The second , democratic socialism , is closer to Hosain's views . Though both are important , the second is the more cru- cial . Individual empathy or an affirmation of shared world ...
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... ethical universal " ( 152 ) . Appiah - and Pandit - are not alone . A wide range of postcoloniza- tion authors and theorists have been adamantly universalist . Rabindranath Tagore is a clear case , as we shall discuss below . Aimé ...
... ethical universal " ( 152 ) . Appiah - and Pandit - are not alone . A wide range of postcoloniza- tion authors and theorists have been adamantly universalist . Rabindranath Tagore is a clear case , as we shall discuss below . Aimé ...
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... ethical respect that leads to cultural preservation . And they merit this at least in part because all people share universal feelings , propensities , rights , and our various cultures all develop out of these shared feelings ...
... ethical respect that leads to cultural preservation . And they merit this at least in part because all people share universal feelings , propensities , rights , and our various cultures all develop out of these shared feelings ...
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... ethically successful , a literary work fosters a feeling of " rahmah " in the reader . Commonly translated as ... ethical consequences of literature after col- onization , and one of the most important tasks of interpretation ...
... ethically successful , a literary work fosters a feeling of " rahmah " in the reader . Commonly translated as ... ethical consequences of literature after col- onization , and one of the most important tasks of interpretation ...
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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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