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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... principles that guide the preceding analyses and as a reference tool for readers who need a quick reminder of one or another theoretical term . Though we will consider universalism more thoroughly in the after- word , it is worth saying ...
... principles that guide the preceding analyses and as a reference tool for readers who need a quick reminder of one or another theoretical term . Though we will consider universalism more thoroughly in the after- word , it is worth saying ...
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... principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ... was no cultural relativist . In the thousands of pages of his collected works , there is hardly a sentence to ...
... principles in his work for Palestine ( see , for example , " Bookless , " 6 ) . Ashis Nandy points out that " Gandhi ... was no cultural relativist . In the thousands of pages of his collected works , there is hardly a sentence to ...
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... principles will be instantiated differently , in conditions that differ across ethnic groups or regions , or for that matter across fami- lies or individuals within a group or region . It does not claim that uni- versals should or even ...
... principles will be instantiated differently , in conditions that differ across ethnic groups or regions , or for that matter across fami- lies or individuals within a group or region . It does not claim that uni- versals should or even ...
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... principles , this ritual is subject to considerable regional variation in its actual per- formance . Then it is much less likely that the ritual will be repeated and preserved , for its performance will require a high concentration of ...
... principles , this ritual is subject to considerable regional variation in its actual per- formance . Then it is much less likely that the ritual will be repeated and preserved , for its performance will require a high concentration of ...
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... principles of traditional thought , count as advances on traditional ideas or practices , either for empirical or moral reasons . For example , there is nothing in orthodox Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of ...
... principles of traditional thought , count as advances on traditional ideas or practices , either for empirical or moral reasons . For example , there is nothing in orthodox Hindu thought that is incoherent with the development of ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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