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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... Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have presented earlier versions of this work in.
... Broken Column Socialism and the Politics of Otherness 257 303 Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts 317 Works Cited 325 Index 337 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have presented earlier versions of this work in.
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... politics of identity in each case , whether admitted or not . Of course , the effects are not confined to brute force . Often , cultural identity covertly infiltrates national policies , or becomes an overt cause to rally political ...
... politics of identity in each case , whether admitted or not . Of course , the effects are not confined to brute force . Often , cultural identity covertly infiltrates national policies , or becomes an overt cause to rally political ...
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... politics as well . In doing this , he draws heavily on motifs and practices of Afro - Caribbean religion , which concretize his thematic analysis . Wal- cott's drama thus provides a culturally particularized exploration of the general ...
... politics as well . In doing this , he draws heavily on motifs and practices of Afro - Caribbean religion , which concretize his thematic analysis . Wal- cott's drama thus provides a culturally particularized exploration of the general ...
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... 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 universalism ...
... 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 universalism ...
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... political independence was achieved - for example , Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Raja Rao's Kanthapura , both published before Indian independence , or Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Amos Tutuola's The Palm - Wine Drinkard ...
... political independence was achieved - for example , Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Raja Rao's Kanthapura , both published before Indian independence , or Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Amos Tutuola's The Palm - Wine Drinkard ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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