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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... example , in a recent collection , Ashcroft , Griffiths , and Tiffin devote one section to the critique of universalism as an ideological source of the oppression of nonwhite peoples ( for a review and criticism of this view , see ...
... example , in a recent collection , Ashcroft , Griffiths , and Tiffin devote one section to the critique of universalism as an ideological source of the oppression of nonwhite peoples ( for a review and criticism of this view , see ...
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... example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ... was no cultural relativist . In the thousands of pages ...
... example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ... was no cultural relativist . In the thousands of pages ...
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... example , we might say that it is a universal human tendency to fall in love as the cross - cultural predominance of romantic tragicomedy testifies . But that does not mean we all fall in love with the same per- son , or the same sort ...
... example , we might say that it is a universal human tendency to fall in love as the cross - cultural predominance of romantic tragicomedy testifies . But that does not mean we all fall in love with the same per- son , or the same sort ...
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... example , Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Raja Rao's Kanthapura , both published before Indian independence , or Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Amos Tutuola's The Palm - Wine Drinkard , both published before Nigerian ...
... example , Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Raja Rao's Kanthapura , both published before Indian independence , or Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Amos Tutuola's The Palm - Wine Drinkard , both published before Nigerian ...
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... example , Maori writing in New Zealand , African American literature , Australian writing concerned with aborigi- nal peoples , and so on - could fruitfully be compared with the paradig- matic postcolonization literatures in this ...
... example , Maori writing in New Zealand , African American literature , Australian writing concerned with aborigi- nal peoples , and so on - could fruitfully be compared with the paradig- matic postcolonization literatures in this ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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