The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

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Titel: The African Novel of Ideas : Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disaggregating Liberalism
PART I NATIONAL HORIZONS
chapter 1 Ethiopia Unbound as Afro-Comparatist Novel: The Case for Liberated Solitude
Chapter 2 Between the House of Stone and a Hard Place: Stanlake Samkange’s Philosophical Turn
PART II GLOBAL RECESSIONS
Chapter 3 A Forked Path, Forever: Kintu between Reason and Rationality
Chapter 4 Bodies Impolitic: African Deaths of Philosophical Suicide
Epilogue: Speculations on the Future of African Literary Studies
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Beteiligte: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2021]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780691212401

ISBN: 9780691212401

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Schlagwörter: African fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism ; African fiction (English) 21st century History and criticism ; Philosophy in literature ; Thought and thinking in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature ; African literature ; African philosophy ; Age of Enlightenment ; Ambivalence ; Americanah ; Assassination ; Author ; Bildung ; Career ; Chinua Achebe ; Civility ; Colonialism ; Comparative literature ; Cosmopolitanism ; Criticism ; Critique ; Cross-cultural ; Dambudzo Marechera ; Death and the King's Horseman ; [...]

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford, Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and understanding African literature.Jackson begins with Fante anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality, and arrives at the treatment of “philosophical suicide” by current southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of subjective experience and abstract thought.The first major transnational exploration of African literature in conversation with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of the African experience within literary history

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