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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... cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial situation ( metropolitan tradition , indigenous tradition , various syncretistic " contact cultures " ) , and the different atti- tudes people in the colonial ...
... cultural complexes that are brought to or develop within the colonial situation ( metropolitan tradition , indigenous tradition , various syncretistic " contact cultures " ) , and the different atti- tudes people in the colonial ...
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... cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the interpretation of indigenous as well as Creole works . Achebe turns away from the theme of colonialism and madness , shared ...
... cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the interpretation of indigenous as well as Creole works . Achebe turns away from the theme of colonialism and madness , shared ...
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... culture - European or indigenous — as a function of class . Ultimately , for Hosain , the most important problems are not those of social custom , but of economic empowerment . This is not to say that Hosain's novel turns us away from ...
... culture - European or indigenous — as a function of class . Ultimately , for Hosain , the most important problems are not those of social custom , but of economic empowerment . This is not to say that Hosain's novel turns us away from ...
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... culture and through the ideological insistence that the dominated people are ... indigenous majority and colonies that were overrun by Europeans do not ... people are in a numerical majority , 2 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... culture and through the ideological insistence that the dominated people are ... indigenous majority and colonies that were overrun by Europeans do not ... people are in a numerical majority , 2 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... indigenous majority literatures of the paradigm postcoloniza- tion countries . On the other hand , since the writers in this region are largely of West African ancestry , they retain many African traditions , and they do so in a way ...
... indigenous majority literatures of the paradigm postcoloniza- tion countries . On the other hand , since the writers in this region are largely of West African ancestry , they retain many African traditions , and they do so in a way ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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