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 xiv
... important in world politics today , but rarely treated with understanding or empathy in political commentary or in lit- erature . Through this dialectic , Tagore advocates a sort of universalism- what Lalita Pandit has called " empathic ...
... important in world politics today , but rarely treated with understanding or empathy in political commentary or in lit- erature . Through this dialectic , Tagore advocates a sort of universalism- what Lalita Pandit has called " empathic ...
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... important patterns , the human pain of colonialism is , in the end , always individual , and thus to some degree contextual . Nonetheless , there are some responses that , though partial , are uniformly valuable in opposing colonialism ...
... important patterns , the human pain of colonialism is , in the end , always individual , and thus to some degree contextual . Nonetheless , there are some responses that , though partial , are uniformly valuable in opposing colonialism ...
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... important rationale for such preservation : The many cultures of the world and the people who live them merit the universal , ethical respect that leads to cultural preservation . And they merit this at least in part because all people ...
... important rationale for such preservation : The many cultures of the world and the people who live them merit the universal , ethical respect that leads to cultural preservation . And they merit this at least in part because all people ...
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... important potential ethical consequences of literature after col- onization , and one of the most important tasks of interpretation— enhancing the moral empathy for which literature is almost uniquely well designed . I am not so deluded ...
... important potential ethical consequences of literature after col- onization , and one of the most important tasks of interpretation— enhancing the moral empathy for which literature is almost uniquely well designed . I am not so deluded ...
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... important effects . Moreover , the initial , direct domination was imposed and maintained through violence or the threat of violence , along with other forms of coercion . Thus , in its most significant impact , it was rel- atively ...
... important effects . Moreover , the initial , direct domination was imposed and maintained through violence or the threat of violence , along with other forms of coercion . Thus , in its most significant impact , it was rel- atively ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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