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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... 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 Eurocentric education implicitly ; they guide ...
... 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 Eurocentric education implicitly ; they guide ...
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... religion , which concretize his thematic analysis . Wal- cott's drama thus provides a culturally particularized exploration of the general issues set forth in the theoretical overview of chapter 1 . The next four works , Jean Rhys's ...
... religion , which concretize his thematic analysis . Wal- cott's drama thus provides a culturally particularized exploration of the general issues set forth in the theoretical overview of chapter 1 . The next four works , Jean Rhys's ...
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... religion , political structure , dress , etiquette , whatever - could serve the same function , with similar results . In terms of identity , the most important aspects of this geographical relation are cultural and social . The ...
... religion , political structure , dress , etiquette , whatever - could serve the same function , with similar results . In terms of identity , the most important aspects of this geographical relation are cultural and social . The ...
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... religious observance , educa- tion , etc. ) , systematicity and rationalization ( i.e. , is it governed by artic- ulated rules that make interactions regular and predictable ) , and so on . Again , I reserve the term " region of contact ...
... religious observance , educa- tion , etc. ) , systematicity and rationalization ( i.e. , is it governed by artic- ulated rules that make interactions regular and predictable ) , and so on . Again , I reserve the term " region of contact ...
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... religion " ( 169 ) . Another subvariable affecting the parameter of severance is the degree of linguistic continuity . Irish and Caribbean people , including writers , no longer share the language of everyday culture used by their ...
... religion " ( 169 ) . Another subvariable affecting the parameter of severance is the degree of linguistic continuity . Irish and Caribbean people , including writers , no longer share the language of everyday culture used by their ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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