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.