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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... sort of universalism- what Lalita Pandit has called " empathic universalism ” ( 207 ) —an atti- tude that is , ultimately , opposed to any narrow advocacy of cultural identity , European , Indian , Hindu , Muslim , Christian , Igbo , or ...
... sort of universalism- what Lalita Pandit has called " empathic universalism ” ( 207 ) —an atti- tude that is , ultimately , opposed to any narrow advocacy of cultural identity , European , Indian , Hindu , Muslim , Christian , Igbo , or ...
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... sort of person , or that we pursue love in the same ways . Universalism , again , is not absolutism . It does not deny that universal principles will be instantiated differently , in conditions that differ across ethnic groups or ...
... sort of person , or that we pursue love in the same ways . Universalism , again , is not absolutism . It does not deny that universal principles will be instantiated differently , in conditions that differ across ethnic groups or ...
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... sort of intrinsic meaning and that people cannot define a term as they like . Nonetheless , the term does seem misleading ( as others have noted ; cf. McClintock and Shohat ) . It appears to imply that the field begins where colonialism ...
... sort of intrinsic meaning and that people cannot define a term as they like . Nonetheless , the term does seem misleading ( as others have noted ; cf. McClintock and Shohat ) . It appears to imply that the field begins where colonialism ...
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... sort of essence - or , conversely , that there is an essence to the " postcolonial " that can be rightly instantiated in one par- ticular grouping . Rather , the best approach , in my view , is to define the sort of colonial situation ...
... sort of essence - or , conversely , that there is an essence to the " postcolonial " that can be rightly instantiated in one par- ticular grouping . Rather , the best approach , in my view , is to define the sort of colonial situation ...
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... sort of cultural encounter - not only early settler literature , but , for example , Maori writing in New Zealand , African American literature , Australian writing concerned with aborigi- nal peoples , and so on - could fruitfully be ...
... sort of cultural encounter - not only early settler literature , but , for example , Maori writing in New Zealand , African American literature , Australian writing concerned with aborigi- nal peoples , and so on - could fruitfully be ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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