Acknowledgments
Introduction. Identities and Universalism
1. Literatures of Colonial Contact: Cultural Geography and the Structures of Identity
2. Dialectics of Mimeticism and Nativism: Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
3. Colonialism, Patriarchy, and Creole Identity: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Culture and Despair: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
5. Worship and "Manness": Earl Lovelace's The Wine of Astonishment
6. Lives of Women in the Region of Contact: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
7. Orthodoxy and Universalism: Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
8. The Economics of Cultural Identity: Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
Afterword. Socialism and the Politics of Otherness
Appendix. Analytic Glossary of Selected Theoretical Concepts
Works Cited
Index