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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... Orthodoxy and Universalism : Rabindranath Tagore's Gora 213 Chapter Eight The Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic ...
... Orthodoxy and Universalism : Rabindranath Tagore's Gora 213 Chapter Eight The Economics of Cultural Identity : Afterword Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic ...
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... orthodox Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of medicine . Indeed , there is a highly developed Hindu science of medicine . To make use of the benefits of Western med- icine would thus count as " modernizing , " in my ...
... orthodox Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of medicine . Indeed , there is a highly developed Hindu science of medicine . To make use of the benefits of Western med- icine would thus count as " modernizing , " in my ...
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... orthodox traditional- ists , for it counsels , not the continuation of development , but its abandonment . " Fundamentalism , " in the popular sense of the term , is typically a form of originalist reactionary traditionalism , usually ...
... orthodox traditional- ists , for it counsels , not the continuation of development , but its abandonment . " Fundamentalism , " in the popular sense of the term , is typically a form of originalist reactionary traditionalism , usually ...
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... orthodoxy is what I shall call " assimilation . " Assimilation is the full acceptance and inter- nalization of the other basic culture . For an English person , it is , in effect , becoming African or Indian . For an African or Indian ...
... orthodoxy is what I shall call " assimilation . " Assimilation is the full acceptance and inter- nalization of the other basic culture . For an English person , it is , in effect , becoming African or Indian . For an African or Indian ...
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... . ) For the most part , the nature of syncretism is straightforward and does not require explanation . However , it is worth noting that what counts as orthodoxy and what counts as syncretism is relative 16 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL ...
... . ) For the most part , the nature of syncretism is straightforward and does not require explanation . However , it is worth noting that what counts as orthodoxy and what counts as syncretism is relative 16 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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