Title: Empire and poetic voice
Description: "In Empire and Poetic Voice Patrick Colm Hogan draws on a broad and detailed knowledge of Indian, African, and European literary cultures to explore the way colonized writers respond to the subtle and contradictory pressures of both metropolitan and indigenous traditions. He examines the work of two influential theorists of identity, Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha, and presents a revised evaluation of the important Nigerian critics, Chinweizu, Jemie, and Madubuike. In the process, he presents a novel theory of literary identity based equally on recent work in cognitive science and culture studies. This theory argues that literary and cultural traditions, like languages, are entirely personal and only appear to be a matter of groups due to our assertions of categorical identity, which are ultimately both false and dangerous."--Jacket.
Subjects: Colonies in literature, Commonwealth literature (English), English literature, History and criticism, Imperialism in literature, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Postcolonialism, Literature, history and criticism
Places: English-speaking countries
Time periods: 20th century