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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... slaves - have been faced with the justificatory racism and ethnocentrism of Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of this , their treatment of identity is in some ways more paradigmatic of the colonial condition than is that of ...
... slaves - have been faced with the justificatory racism and ethnocentrism of Europe in a particularly stark form . Because of this , their treatment of identity is in some ways more paradigmatic of the colonial condition than is that of ...
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... slavery , virtually all Africans were , at least initially , thrust into a contact region , and removed entirely from autonomous regions . Of course , slaves - including newly arrived Africans , who carried particularly fresh memories ...
... slavery , virtually all Africans were , at least initially , thrust into a contact region , and removed entirely from autonomous regions . Of course , slaves - including newly arrived Africans , who carried particularly fresh memories ...
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... slaves simply could not return to African villages . A second subvariable here is the mode of existence of the basic cul- ture , the degree to which it is codified in writing , etc. It is clearly easier to maintain a culture that is ...
... slaves simply could not return to African villages . A second subvariable here is the mode of existence of the basic cul- ture , the degree to which it is codified in writing , etc. It is clearly easier to maintain a culture that is ...
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Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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