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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... woman who is denied positive cultural and gender identity because of her intermediate position in the colonial ... women . In each case , the author examines how the development or intensification of colonial contact precipitates a ...
... woman who is denied positive cultural and gender identity because of her intermediate position in the colonial ... women . In each case , the author examines how the development or intensification of colonial contact precipitates a ...
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... women mix freely , then the tradi- tional practices surrounding the isolation of women and men must be extended and strengthened , with exceptions eliminated . Arguably , this form of reactionary traditionalism is not simply a matter of ...
... women mix freely , then the tradi- tional practices surrounding the isolation of women and men must be extended and strengthened , with exceptions eliminated . Arguably , this form of reactionary traditionalism is not simply a matter of ...
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... women was ideologically important as well . First of all , indigenous women were viewed as the most passive creatures possible . Subservient , even to the point of lacking separate will , they were the shadowy tittering figures on the ...
... women was ideologically important as well . First of all , indigenous women were viewed as the most passive creatures possible . Subservient , even to the point of lacking separate will , they were the shadowy tittering figures on the ...
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... women did not suffer from this ideological sexualization . Quite the contrary . Here , too , indigenous women were " hyper - feminized , " which in this case means assimilated as a group to prostitutes , or rather to a fantasy of the ...
... women did not suffer from this ideological sexualization . Quite the contrary . Here , too , indigenous women were " hyper - feminized , " which in this case means assimilated as a group to prostitutes , or rather to a fantasy of the ...
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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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