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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... Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism : Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 83 Chapter Four ...
... Structures of Identity 1 Chapter Two Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism : Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 45 Chapter Three Colonialism , Patriarchy , and Creole Identity : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 83 Chapter Four ...
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... structure in which it arises , the manner in which it becomes problematic , the ways in which people respond to this prob- lematization . The first chapter outlines a general analytic or theory of cultural identity in the context of ...
... structure in which it arises , the manner in which it becomes problematic , the ways in which people respond to this prob- lematization . The first chapter outlines a general analytic or theory of cultural identity in the context of ...
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... structure . Her final madness is , in effect , the manifestation of this denial . Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and ...
... structure . Her final madness is , in effect , the manifestation of this denial . Moreover , discussing this madness allows us to clarify the constitution of personal identity in rela- tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and ...
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... structures and properties , as the array of linguistic universals illustrates . But these may manifest themselves quite differently . To take a romantic example , we might say that it is a universal INTRODUCTION xvii.
... structures and properties , as the array of linguistic universals illustrates . But these may manifest themselves quite differently . To take a romantic example , we might say that it is a universal INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... Structures of Identity POSTCOLONIZATION LITERATURE AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY The first problem facing anyone who sets out to write on postcoloniza- tion literature is to determine the scope of the field . Unlike most literary " periods ...
... Structures of Identity POSTCOLONIZATION LITERATURE AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY The first problem facing anyone who sets out to write on postcoloniza- tion literature is to determine the scope of the field . Unlike most literary " periods ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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