Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.
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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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Title
Empire and poetic voice.
International Standard Book Number
0791459640
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Colonies in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.