Spis treści
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
O autorze
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.