Description: Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "This is a thoughtful and intense engagement with a series of postcolonial literary texts. Hogan recovers lines of affiliation between these texts and the myths, assumptions, traditions, and works that helped Inspire them. He demonstrates that an indigenous text can be just as complicit in the imperial project as any Western text and that indigenous texts may be as anxious to revise native' traditions and views as they are to 'subvert' those of the imposed imperial culture."