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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... relation to this , I pay particular attention to ideas about gender , for these ideas are most often crucial to any group's conception of its own culture , and , indeed , to any group's understanding of other cultures . In the final ...
... relation to this , I pay particular attention to ideas about gender , for these ideas are most often crucial to any group's conception of its own culture , and , indeed , to any group's understanding of other cultures . In the final ...
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... relation to a systematically mate- rialist , indeed , Marxist analysis . Hosain's treatment of the problem of identity is , in the end , not culturalist , but economic , for she portrays both the use and the effect of culture - European ...
... relation to a systematically mate- rialist , indeed , Marxist analysis . Hosain's treatment of the problem of identity is , in the end , not culturalist , but economic , for she portrays both the use and the effect of culture - European ...
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... relation are cultural and social . The metropolis and the indigenous region maintain what might be called " basic " culture - English culture in England and Igbo culture in the interior Igbo villages . In contrast , the regions of high ...
... relation are cultural and social . The metropolis and the indigenous region maintain what might be called " basic " culture - English culture in England and Igbo culture in the interior Igbo villages . In contrast , the regions of high ...
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... relation to particular structures , and so on . The parameter I wish to isolate here is a matter of the degree to which any given cul- ture has been internalized in this sense . In the region of cultural autonomy , the people have ...
... relation to particular structures , and so on . The parameter I wish to isolate here is a matter of the degree to which any given cul- ture has been internalized in this sense . In the region of cultural autonomy , the people have ...
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... relation to tradi- tion may arise at any time , in any context , they arise with unique force and scope as colonial contact intensifies , the degree of severance increases , internalizations of idea and act fade or shift between antago ...
... relation to tradi- tion may arise at any time , in any context , they arise with unique force and scope as colonial contact intensifies , the degree of severance increases , internalizations of idea and act fade or shift between antago ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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