Empire and Poetic Voice
Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
299 pages
978-0-7914-8569-9 (ISBN)
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Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.
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Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism
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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.
Content
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
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
