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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... identity . The play is a narrative dialectic in which characters take up and enact one attitude toward identity ( e.g. , one type of mimeti- cism ) , develop it to a practical extreme , then abandon it in the face of new conditions and ...
... identity . The play is a narrative dialectic in which characters take up and enact one attitude toward identity ( e.g. , one type of mimeti- cism ) , develop it to a practical extreme , then abandon it in the face of new conditions and ...
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... practical importance among anticolonial activists . For example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ...
... practical importance among anticolonial activists . For example , Edward Said has repeatedly appealed to universal principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ...
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... practical effect on anyone . However , I hope that the following explications will foster the experience of rahmah regarding colonized peoples and their ways of life , especially because this experience is both the deepest source and ...
... practical effect on anyone . However , I hope that the following explications will foster the experience of rahmah regarding colonized peoples and their ways of life , especially because this experience is both the deepest source and ...
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... IDENTITY AND TRADITION It hardly needs to be said that colonial contact ... identity a problem — an issue on which one almost necessarily takes a stand . While ... practical identity . ” The representational or referential component ...
... IDENTITY AND TRADITION It hardly needs to be said that colonial contact ... identity a problem — an issue on which one almost necessarily takes a stand . While ... practical identity . ” The representational or referential component ...
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... identity , this is because sex is generally treated as centrally important in the society around me , because I am regularly identified as male , because my practical identity has been shaped around this categorization . In terms of ...
... identity , this is because sex is generally treated as centrally important in the society around me , because I am regularly identified as male , because my practical identity has been shaped around this categorization . In terms of ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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