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Author:   Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780791459638

ISBN 10:   0791459632
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   04 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Decolonizing Cultural Identity 1. Ideological Ambiguities of ""Writing Back"": Anita Desai and George Lamming in the Heart of Darkness 2. Revising Indigenous Precursors, Reimagining Social Ideals: Tagore's The Home and the World and Valmeki's Ramayana 3. Subaltern Myths Drawn from the Colonizer: Dream on Monkey Mountain and the Revolutionary Jesus 4. Preserving the Voice of Ancestors: Yoruba Myth and Ritual in The Palm-Wine Drinkard 5. Outdoing the Colonizer: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, Walcott 6. Indigenous Tradition and the Individual Talent: Agha Shahid Ali, Laila/Majnoon, and the Ghazal Afterword: ""We Are All Africans"": The Universal Privacy of Tradition Notes Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts Works Cited Index"

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""This is a thoughtful and intense engagement with a series of postcolonial literary texts. Hogan recovers lines of affiliation between these texts and the myths, assumptions, traditions, and works that helped Inspire them. He demonstrates that an indigenous text can be just as complicit in the imperial project as any Western text and that indigenous texts may be as anxious to revise native' traditions and views as they are to 'subvert' those of the imposed imperial culture.""

This is a thoughtful and intense engagement with a series of postcolonial literary texts. Hogan recovers lines of affiliation between these texts and the myths, assumptions, traditions, and works that helped Inspire them. He demonstrates that an indigenous text can be just as complicit in the imperial project as any Western text and that indigenous texts may be as anxious to revise native' traditions and views as they are to 'subvert' those of the imposed imperial culture.

"""This is a thoughtful and intense engagement with a series of postcolonial literary texts. Hogan recovers lines of affiliation between these texts and the myths, assumptions, traditions, and works that helped Inspire them. He demonstrates that an indigenous text can be just as complicit in the imperial project as any Western text and that indigenous texts may be as anxious to revise native' traditions and views as they are to 'subvert' those of the imposed imperial culture."""

Author Information

Patrick Colm Hogan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. He is the author and editor of many books, including (with Lalita Pandit) Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture and Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean, both published by SUNY Press.

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