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200 10$aRelocating agency $emodernity and African letters /$fOlakunle George
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (249 p.)
225 0 $aSUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7914-5541-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
327   $a""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""
330   $a2003 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.
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