Colonialism and cultural identity : crises of tradition in the anglophone literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
"This 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." (Pub. Web site)
Print Book, English, 2000
State University of New York Press, New York, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 353 pages ; 24 cm
9780791444597, 9780791444603, 0791444597, 0791444600
42921275
Literatures of colonial contact: cultural geography and the structures of identity
Dialectics of mimeticism and nativism: Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
Colonialism, patriarchy, and Creole identity: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Culture and despair: Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
Worship and "manness": Earl Lovelace's The wine of astonishment
Lives of women in the region of contact: Buchi Emecheta's The joys of motherhood
Orthodoxy and universalism: Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
The economics of cultural identity: Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a broken column