Colonialism and cultural identity : crises of tradition in the anglophone literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
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Colonialism and cultural identity : crises of tradition in the anglophone literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
（SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies）
State University of New York Press, c2000
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Bibliographical references: p. 325-335
Includes index: p. 337-353
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Identities and Universalism
1. Literatures of Colonial Contact: Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity
2. Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism: Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
3. Colonialism, Patriarchy, and Creole Identity: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Culture and Despair: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
5. Worship and "Manness": Earl Lovelace's The Wine of Astonishment
6. Lives of Women in the Region of Contact: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
7. Orthodoxy and Universalism: Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
8. The Economics of Cultural Identity: Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
Afterword. Socialism and the Politics of Otherness
Appendix. Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts
Works Cited
Index
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