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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... social custom , but of economic empowerment . This is not to say that Hosain's novel turns us away from considerations of cul- tural identity . These remain crucial . But Hosain urges us to focus our primary attention on the often ...
... social custom , but of economic empowerment . This is not to say that Hosain's novel turns us away from considerations of cul- tural identity . These remain crucial . But Hosain urges us to focus our primary attention on the often ...
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... social universalism " and is particu- larly close to Tagore's views . It includes four components : descriptive uni- versalism , experiential or empathic universalism , ethical universalism , and cultural universalism . The second ...
... social universalism " and is particu- larly close to Tagore's views . It includes four components : descriptive uni- versalism , experiential or empathic universalism , ethical universalism , and cultural universalism . The second ...
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... put all his faith in universal , as distinct from cross - cultural forms of social theory " ( Traditions , 127 ) . Frantz Fanon , so often seen as the antithesis of Gandhi , expressed xvi COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
... put all his faith in universal , as distinct from cross - cultural forms of social theory " ( Traditions , 127 ) . Frantz Fanon , so often seen as the antithesis of Gandhi , expressed xvi COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL IDENTITY.
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... 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 intensity contact ( e.g. ...
... 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 intensity contact ( e.g. ...
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... social practices , not individual decisions . Clearly , I do not choose my practical identity . Rather , I am brought up in such a way that I am comfortable in certain situations , know how to behave , know my " role . " The same is ...
... social practices , not individual decisions . Clearly , I do not choose my practical identity . Rather , I am brought up in such a way that I am comfortable in certain situations , know how to behave , know my " role . " The same is ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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