Empire and poetic voice : cognitive and cultural studies of literary tradition and colonialism /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.