03570nam 2200649Ia 450 991081317500332120240417035913.00-7914-8776-810.1515/9780791487761(CKB)2670000000233686(EBL)3408010(MiAaPQ)EBC3408010(Au-PeEL)EBL3408010(CaPaEBR)ebr10587209(OCoLC)811404082(DE-B1597)683961(DE-B1597)9780791487761(EXLCZ)99267000000023368620020201d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRelocating agency[electronic resource] modernity and African letters /Olakunle George1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (249 p.)SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7914-5541-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.""Relocating Agency""; ""Contents""; ""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleCombining 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.SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial StudiesAfrican literature (English)History and criticismLiterature and societyAfricaHistory20th centuryAgent (Philosophy) in literatureDecolonization in literaturePoststructuralismAfricaPostcolonialismAfricaNigeriaIn literatureAfrican literature (English)History and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryAgent (Philosophy) in literature.Decolonization in literature.PoststructuralismPostcolonialism820.9/896George Olakunle1640141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813175003321Relocating agency3983540UNINA