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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... tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the interpretation of indigenous as well as Creole works . Achebe turns away from the theme of colonialism and madness ...
... tion to cultural identity , colonialism , and gender and it allows us to do this in a way that has direct bearing on the interpretation of indigenous as well as Creole works . Achebe turns away from the theme of colonialism and madness ...
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... tion , on the other . Absolutism is the view that one culturally particular set of precepts or practices applies to everyone ; it is absolute . Projection is the unself - conscious assumption that everyone thinks the INTRODUCTION XV.
... tion , on the other . Absolutism is the view that one culturally particular set of precepts or practices applies to everyone ; it is absolute . Projection is the unself - conscious assumption that everyone thinks the INTRODUCTION XV.
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... tion authors and theorists have been adamantly universalist . Rabindranath Tagore is a clear case , as we shall discuss below . Aimé Césaire , a writer very different from Tagore in other ways , shared this attitude , referring to " the ...
... tion authors and theorists have been adamantly universalist . Rabindranath Tagore is a clear case , as we shall discuss below . Aimé Césaire , a writer very different from Tagore in other ways , shared this attitude , referring to " the ...
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... tion literature is to determine the scope of the field . Unlike most literary " periods , " postcolonization literature is broadly multinational and mul- ticultural . More importantly , not everyone is agreed as to which nations and ...
... tion literature is to determine the scope of the field . Unlike most literary " periods , " postcolonization literature is broadly multinational and mul- ticultural . More importantly , not everyone is agreed as to which nations and ...
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... tion countries . On the other hand , since the writers in this region are largely of West African ancestry , they retain many African traditions , and they do so in a way that clearly involves the repeated transforma- tion of these ...
... tion countries . On the other hand , since the writers in this region are largely of West African ancestry , they retain many African traditions , and they do so in a way that clearly involves the repeated transforma- tion of these ...
Contents
Afterword Socialism and the Politics of Otherness | 303 |
Appendix Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical | 317 |
Index | 337 |
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