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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... traditionalist is likely to be reflective about certain aspects of tradition but not about others . Indeed , it is ... reactionary traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism " LITERATURES OF COLONIAL CONTACT 11.
... traditionalist is likely to be reflective about certain aspects of tradition but not about others . Indeed , it is ... reactionary traditionalism " -or , sometimes , " reactionary nativism " LITERATURES OF COLONIAL CONTACT 11.
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... reactionary nativism " or " reac- tionary racialism . " Reactionary ... traditionalist tries to eliminate from indigenous culture all elements that ... reactionary traditionalism is not simply a matter of eliminat- ing Europeanisms , but ...
... reactionary nativism " or " reac- tionary racialism . " Reactionary ... traditionalist tries to eliminate from indigenous culture all elements that ... reactionary traditionalism is not simply a matter of eliminat- ing Europeanisms , but ...
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... reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know indigenous tradition . He / she has lived away from communal practices for too long , has never studied the sacred texts or learned the holy tongue , has never internalized ...
... reactionary traditionalist that he / she does not truly know indigenous tradition . He / she has lived away from communal practices for too long , has never studied the sacred texts or learned the holy tongue , has never internalized ...
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... reactionary traditionalist attitude toward English culture . I have not treated the English side here as it has only very limited bearing on the literature we will be examining . ) If we like , it is possible to distinguish a form of ...
... reactionary traditionalist attitude toward English culture . I have not treated the English side here as it has only very limited bearing on the literature we will be examining . ) If we like , it is possible to distinguish a form of ...
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... reactionary traditionalism , but , like assimilation , it moves in the ... traditionalist , the mimeticist most often has only the most superficial ... reactionary tradi- tionalism and mimeticism is that reactionary traditionalists are ...
... reactionary traditionalism , but , like assimilation , it moves in the ... traditionalist , the mimeticist most often has only the most superficial ... reactionary tradi- tionalism and mimeticism is that reactionary traditionalists are ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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