Relocating agency : modernity and African letters / / Olakunle George
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| Autore: |
George Olakunle
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| Titolo: |
Relocating agency : modernity and African letters / / Olakunle George
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/896 |
| Soggetto topico: | African literature (English) - History and criticism |
| Literature and society - Africa - History - 20th century | |
| Agent (Philosophy) in literature | |
| Decolonization in literature | |
| Poststructuralism - Africa | |
| Postcolonialism - Africa | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Nigeria In literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Relocating agency |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8776-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813175003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies