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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... racial identity , ethnic identity , religious identity , national identity . Feelings of a communal self , based in a real or imagined history of shared practices and beliefs , inspire Afrocentric edu- cation explicitly , and ...
... racial identity , ethnic identity , religious identity , national identity . Feelings of a communal self , based in a real or imagined history of shared practices and beliefs , inspire Afrocentric edu- cation explicitly , and ...
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... racial superiority and justifies its domination by reference to this putative superiority . Finally , each group - colonizer and colonized - retains a geographical domain in which it is clearly numerically superior . Societies such as ...
... racial superiority and justifies its domination by reference to this putative superiority . Finally , each group - colonizer and colonized - retains a geographical domain in which it is clearly numerically superior . Societies such as ...
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... racial status of the Irish was slowly dissolved into a reconstituted " white " race - which , in some versions , includes Semitic and south Asian peoples - all opposed to blacks . As this definition already makes clear , by its very ...
... racial status of the Irish was slowly dissolved into a reconstituted " white " race - which , in some versions , includes Semitic and south Asian peoples - all opposed to blacks . As this definition already makes clear , by its very ...
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... racially intermediate . Mulattos and other mixed - race people often fill this role . Privileged relative to people of fully indigenous ancestry , they can aspire to a higher station than ordinary " natives " and can be used by ...
... racially intermediate . Mulattos and other mixed - race people often fill this role . Privileged relative to people of fully indigenous ancestry , they can aspire to a higher station than ordinary " natives " and can be used by ...
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... racial superiority , but they are frequently derived from , and in many cases still based on , a prior or underlying belief in one's cultural or racial inferiority . Syncretism and Alienation Finally , one might privilege neither ...
... racial superiority , but they are frequently derived from , and in many cases still based on , a prior or underlying belief in one's cultural or racial inferiority . Syncretism and Alienation Finally , one might privilege neither ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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