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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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