Relocating Agency

Modernity and African Letters

AvOlakunle George

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Del i serien SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

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A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 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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Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-19
Mått:153 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791455418

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Olakunle George is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.

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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Issues and Context: On Knowledge as Limit 2. Contemporary Theory and the Demand for Agency 3. The Logic of Agency in African Literary Criticism 4. D. O. Fagunwa as Compound of Spells 5. Wole Soyinka and the Challenge of Transition Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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