Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters
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ISBN-13:
9780791455425
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2003
Seiten:
247
Autor:
Olakunle George
Gewicht:
327 g
Format:
231x150x14 mm
Serie:
Suny Series, Explorations in P
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Combining a sustained critical engagement of Anglo-American theory with focused close-readings of major African writers, this book performs a long-overdue cross-fertilization of ideas among poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and African literature. The author examines several influential figures in current theory such as Habermas, Althusser, Laclau and Mouffe, as well as the theorists of postcolonialism, and offers an extended reading of the Nigerian writers D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. He argues that contrary to what the purism and voluntarism common to postcolonial theory might suggest, one lesson of African letters is that significant agency can result from acts that are blind to their determinations. For George, African letters offer an instance of "agency-in-motion, " as opposed to agency in theory.
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