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

by Patrick Colm Hogan and Assistant Professor of English Patrick Colm Hogan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791444597
• ISBN13: 9780791444597
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 373 Pages