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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... traditionalism " orthodoxy , " and mean the category to encompass a wide ... traditionalism . " As I am using the term , " orthodoxy " involves an openness to the ... reactionary traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism ...
... traditionalism " orthodoxy , " and mean the category to encompass a wide ... traditionalism . " As I am using the term , " orthodoxy " involves an openness to the ... reactionary traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism ...
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... traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism " or " reac- tionary racialism . " Reactionary traditionalism is , first of all , a rigidifi- cation of indigenous tradition . However , it is a rigidification governed by European ...
... traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism " or " reac- tionary racialism . " Reactionary traditionalism is , first of all , a rigidifi- cation of indigenous tradition . However , it is a rigidification governed by European ...
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... reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know indigenous tradition . He / she has lived away from ... traditionalism . " In this case , I substitute the term " reactionary nativism . " Similarly , when a stereotyp- ical ...
... reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know indigenous tradition . He / she has lived away from ... traditionalism . " In this case , I substitute the term " reactionary nativism . " Similarly , when a stereotyp- ical ...
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... reactionary traditionalism , but , like assimilation , it moves in the opposite direction . An early account of this ... traditionalism , not least in having two main types , purgative and stereotypical . In the more common , purgative ...
... reactionary traditionalism , but , like assimilation , it moves in the opposite direction . An early account of this ... traditionalism , not least in having two main types , purgative and stereotypical . In the more common , purgative ...
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... reaction formation . Though my outward behav- ior and conscious attitude are solicitous and loving , they are in fact a defense against aggression and hatred . Reactionary traditionalism , racialism , and so on , are directly parallel ...
... reaction formation . Though my outward behav- ior and conscious attitude are solicitous and loving , they are in fact a defense against aggression and hatred . Reactionary traditionalism , racialism , and so on , are directly parallel ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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