Empire and poetic voice : cognitive and cultural studies of literary tradition and colonialism /

Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Hogan, Patrick Colm
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2004
Series:	SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
Subjects:	Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Postcolonialism > English-speaking countries. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

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 Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa
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
"We are all Africans": the universal privacy of tradition.

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