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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Page xi
... ideological justifications , its con- tinuing effects - and with struggles against colonialism . In the following pages , I have set out to analyze the issue of cultural identity - the structure in which it arises , the manner in which ...
... ideological justifications , its con- tinuing effects - and with struggles against colonialism . In the following pages , I have set out to analyze the issue of cultural identity - the structure in which it arises , the manner in which ...
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... ideological source of the oppression of nonwhite peoples ( for a review and criticism of this view , see Jacoby ) . Part of the problem is that these critics and theorists seem to have confused universalism with absolutism , on the one ...
... ideological source of the oppression of nonwhite peoples ( for a review and criticism of this view , see Jacoby ) . Part of the problem is that these critics and theorists seem to have confused universalism with absolutism , on the one ...
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... ideological insistence that the dominated people are an inferior race . In other words , the body of literature I should like to iso- late has the following characteristics : It is the historical result of direct political and economic ...
... ideological insistence that the dominated people are an inferior race . In other words , the body of literature I should like to iso- late has the following characteristics : It is the historical result of direct political and economic ...
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... based not on tradition per se , but rather on the colo- nial , ideological misrepresentation of that tradition . It is typical of the reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know 121 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... based not on tradition per se , but rather on the colo- nial , ideological misrepresentation of that tradition . It is typical of the reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know 121 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... ideology as seemingly passive and subservient , but harboring hidden violence and lust . Out of sight , they were drugged and lecherous , immoral and dis- solute . These are the " Eastern excesses , " bacchic " opposites " to Euro- pean ...
... ideology as seemingly passive and subservient , but harboring hidden violence and lust . Out of sight , they were drugged and lecherous , immoral and dis- solute . These are the " Eastern excesses , " bacchic " opposites " to Euro- pean ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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