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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... one's entire sense of purpose , one's entire imagination of a future life , and thus result in complete and psychologically devastating despair - as it does in the case of the main character . Lovelace focuses more narrowly on the ...
... one's entire sense of purpose , one's entire imagination of a future life , and thus result in complete and psychologically devastating despair - as it does in the case of the main character . Lovelace focuses more narrowly on the ...
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... one's failure in that pursuit ; it arises when anti - univer- salist tendencies arise , consciously or unconsciously . As Kwame Appiah points out , " It is characteristic of those who pose as antiuniversalists to use the term ...
... one's failure in that pursuit ; it arises when anti - univer- salist tendencies arise , consciously or unconsciously . As Kwame Appiah points out , " It is characteristic of those who pose as antiuniversalists to use the term ...
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... one's interests and aims . It does not seem to me productive to try to decide that one or another grouping is definitive , that it captures some sort of essence - or , conversely , that there is an essence to the " postcolonial " that ...
... one's interests and aims . It does not seem to me productive to try to decide that one or another grouping is definitive , that it captures some sort of essence - or , conversely , that there is an essence to the " postcolonial " that ...
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... this is the sort of contact that is consequential for one's sense of identity . It is worth noting that the region of contact ( in my sense ) is typically the region that is under the 4 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... this is the sort of contact that is consequential for one's sense of identity . It is worth noting that the region of contact ( in my sense ) is typically the region that is under the 4 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... one's cultural identity , and thus one's personal identity . As we shall discuss in more detail in the following chapters , identity . is best thought of as involving a representational or referential compo- nent and a procedural or ...
... one's cultural identity , and thus one's personal identity . As we shall discuss in more detail in the following chapters , identity . is best thought of as involving a representational or referential compo- nent and a procedural or ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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