Colonialism & Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean

Seitenzahl:

353

Gewicht:

490 g

Erschienen bei:

St Univ Of New York

Kurzbeschreibung

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.

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Mehr über:  Literature - Classics / Criticism, World - Post-Colonial Studies, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Travel, Shopping

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Mehr von:  Patrick Colm Hogan, St Univ Of New York