Colonialism and cultural identity
Subtitle: crises of tradition in the anglophone literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean
By: Patrick Colm Hogan.
Series: SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.; African literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Decolonization in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Culture in literature; Postcolonialism.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-335) and index.