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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... ideas about gender , for these ideas are most often crucial to any group's conception of its own culture , and , indeed , to any group's understanding of other cultures . In the final section of chapter 1 , I discuss some differences ...
... ideas about gender , for these ideas are most often crucial to any group's conception of its own culture , and , indeed , to any group's understanding of other cultures . In the final section of chapter 1 , I discuss some differences ...
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... idea of the deep compatibility of universalism and particularism . There is a tendency to think of uni- versalism as vacuous - a mere expression of good will - or as a mat- ter of bare subjectivity . In fact , humans share many specific ...
... idea of the deep compatibility of universalism and particularism . There is a tendency to think of uni- versalism as vacuous - a mere expression of good will - or as a mat- ter of bare subjectivity . In fact , humans share many specific ...
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... ideas and prac- tices , they are more likely to repeat and thus preserve them . Though , for ease of explication , I have referred to " basic culture " in the singular , there are significant cultural differences determined by region ...
... ideas and prac- tices , they are more likely to repeat and thus preserve them . Though , for ease of explication , I have referred to " basic culture " in the singular , there are significant cultural differences determined by region ...
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... ideas uncer- tain and ends the easy performance of traditional practices . In doing this , it makes cultural identity ... idea and act fade or shift between antago- nistic cultures , coming to rest fully in neither one nor the other . In ...
... ideas uncer- tain and ends the easy performance of traditional practices . In doing this , it makes cultural identity ... idea and act fade or shift between antago- nistic cultures , coming to rest fully in neither one nor the other . In ...
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... ideas of the tradition , accepting them in all their precolonial diversity . It is particularly important to stress the open quality of tradition here . As Ashis Nandy has argued , " Those in deeper touch with traditions . . . are , for ...
... ideas of the tradition , accepting them in all their precolonial diversity . It is particularly important to stress the open quality of tradition here . As Ashis Nandy has argued , " Those in deeper touch with traditions . . . are , for ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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