Zones of Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and the Nation

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Index Abacha, General Sani, 149 Abiola, Moshood, 149 Achebe, Chinua, 4, 14, 118–19, 121–38; commitment to the nation, 151 advertising, 143–44 aesthetic, the, 79, 122–23 Africa, 116–51 agency, 87–89 Aiyéró, 141–44, 148, 151 alienation, 84, 94, 181 allegory: as (positive) condition of narration, 59, 156; as formal characteristic, 57–58; and globalization, 56, 203; as interpretive strategy, 49–51, 53; and the nation, 57– 60; national, 48–60 ‘‘allochronism,’’ 219n. 76 Allouette I, 153 Alteri, Charles, 190 ambiguity: in culture, 154; in fiction, 121; in politics, 121, 126 Americanization, 16–17, 103 Anderson, Benedict, 7, 13, 40–48, 62, 191 anglophone, 17 Anthills of the Savannah, The, 119, 121–38; as fictional working out of concerns raised in The Trouble with Nigeria, 226n. 18. See also The Trouble with Nigeria anticolonialism, 43, 46–47, 105, 108 Appadurai, Arjun, 27–28 Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The, 162 Arrow of God, 123 art, 125, 154 artist, role of the, 19, 110. See also writer, the; intellectual, the ‘‘Artist in the Caribbean, The,’’ 110 As For Me and My House, 191 Atwood, Margaret, 162, 193; as thematic critic, 155–56, 187 audience, importance of reaching a national, 77, 110 authenticity: break from, 72; effort to produce , 54; and language, 73; of the masses, 128; question of, 29–30, 103–4 autonomy, 104, 122, 181 auto-poesis, 132 avant-garde, 19, 20 base-superstructure, 75 Beautiful Losers, 162 belatedness: of the Canadian nation, 178 Beyond a Boundary, 66, 108–15 Biafra, 116–51 Black Skin, White Masks, 31, 54–55, 73–74, 82, 86, 96 border situation, 11 Boehmer, Elleke, 24–25, 161 Bono, 116 Borduas, Paul Émile, 163 Bourdieu, Pierre, 19 Brecht, Bertolt, 121, 126 Brennan, Timothy, 182 Britain. See England British Caribbean, 15–16, 65–115 British Guiana, 101 Brydon, Diana, 183, 196, 200 Bush Garden, The, 180 Cabral, Amilcar, 35 Calgary Conference on the Novel, 187 Calhoun, Craig, 117 Caliban-Prospero: as model of colonizercolonized relationship, 80 238 Index calypso, 110 Cameron, Barry, 184 Canada, 16–17, 152–98; as a British colony, 153; as colony of the United States, 166; as an impossible nation, 167, 170–73; and international culture, 182; and modernity, 179, 181; premodern values of, 170, 179; postcolonial status of, 200–201; as a postnational nation, 157, 167, 181 Canada Council, 17, 153–55 Canadian Canons, 185 ‘‘Canadian Fate and Imperialism,’’ 169 Canadian literature, 162, 186, 192–93, 230n. 30; and literary criticism, 163–64 Canadianness, 155–56, 183, 184, 194, 196 canon, the, 189–92 canonization, 155, 185–86, 188 ‘‘Canonization of Canadian Literature,’’ 186–89; in Critical Inquiry, 186 capitalism, 103, 168, 169, 214n. 16 Caribbean, the, 107. See also British Caribbean Caribbean literature, 65 ‘‘Case for West-Indian Self-Government, The,’’ 108 Castroism, 171 Catholicism and Québécois cultural identity, 173 Charland, Maurice, 153 Chatterjee, Partha, 43–45, 62, 105 civilization, 98–99, 102, 106 Clinton, Bill, 116 Cocoa Corporation, 141, 144 Cocoa Queen Iriyise, 145 Cohen, Leonard, 162 Cold War, 166 collective, the: in literature, 87, 151; of the nation, 97; politics of, 20; problem of, 18– 19, 199; promise of, 151 colonialism, 1–2, 11, 54, 74, 85; as the basis for (common) identification, 69, 74, 99; experience of, 7, 82, 94–95 colonial nationalism, 8, 100 Comaroff, Jean and John, 204 commodity, 52 Commonwealth, 4 community, 12, 192; loss of, 83, 97; necessity of for nationalism, 105; possibility for, 89; as spontaneous reaction, 135–36 Conference on Canadian Literature (Queen’s University), 192 Congo, the, 116 conservative tradition: in Canada, 167, 170– 74 consumption, 168 context: in Canadian literature, 177, 195 corporation, 141–42 corruption, political: as male, 135; patterns of, 116; problem of shift from, 128; psychology of, 123; as a societal characteristic , 122, 124 cosmopolitanism, 104, 182, 196; as aligned with the utopian, 141; false, 34–35. See also globalization ‘‘Country without a Canon, A?,’’ 190–92 creolization, process of, 81 cricket: as national cultural form, 69, 108, 110–14; as site of national politics, 111–12 crisis: as condition of the colonial subject, 86, 92–93; as signifying loss of community , 91 critic, the: as nationalist, 197; responsibility to the public, 194; the role of, 56, 193; thematic, 155 Cuban Missile Crisis, 168 cultural exploitation. See cultural imperialism cultural imperialism, 2, 26, 31–32, 54; American, 206; threat of in Canada, 161 cultural policy, national, 27 cultural studies, 112 cultural theory, 22–24 culturalism, 18, 212n. 33 culture...