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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... sense of purpose , one's entire imagination of a future life , and thus result in complete and psychologically devastating despair - as it does in the case of the main character . Lovelace focuses more narrowly on the degree to which ...
... sense of purpose , one's entire imagination of a future life , and thus result in complete and psychologically devastating despair - as it does in the case of the main character . Lovelace focuses more narrowly on the degree to which ...
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... sense , his work is part of Anglophone literature even though it was not written in English . In the final chapter , I turn to Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column . This novel takes up most of the cultural concerns addressed in ...
... sense , his work is part of Anglophone literature even though it was not written in English . In the final chapter , I turn to Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column . This novel takes up most of the cultural concerns addressed in ...
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... sense , two literatures : one arising from the dominant or colonizer society , the other from the dominated or colo- nized society . This is , indeed , the most fundamental division , which one must draw in anatomizing postcolonization ...
... sense , two literatures : one arising from the dominant or colonizer society , the other from the dominated or colo- nized society . This is , indeed , the most fundamental division , which one must draw in anatomizing postcolonization ...
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... sense of identity . It is worth noting that the region of contact ( in my sense ) is typically the region that is under the 4 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... sense of identity . It is worth noting that the region of contact ( in my sense ) is typically the region that is under the 4 COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... sense ) is typically the region that is under the firmest control of the colo- nial government , whereas Pratt's contact zone would be the area least firmly controlled . It is also worth mentioning that , in the region of contact , the ...
... sense ) is typically the region that is under the firmest control of the colo- nial government , whereas Pratt's contact zone would be the area least firmly controlled . It is also worth mentioning that , in the region of contact , the ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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