书目名称 | Re-Reading Tragic Africa |
副标题 | Development, Neolibe |
编辑 | Amy Rushton |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/822/821733/821733.mp4 |
概述 | Marks a substantial advance in understanding tragedy and development in African fiction.Explores how world-systemic analysis speaks to literary approaches that prioritise historical and cultural speci |
丛书名称 | New Comparisons in World Literature |
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描述 | Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ‘tragedy’ in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It argues that working through the full complexity of ‘tragedy’ helps to identify and challenge plots that depict Africa as reaching a tragic impasse. Instead, reconsidering tragedy allows for further, related interventions including the implications of narratives of development, the argument for formally engaging with literary texts that present challenging material, reformulations of African political and cultural agency, and the possibilities to be found in utopian thinking. It claims that contemporary fiction helps to scrutinise the familiar big picture of Africa and create space for discussions about wider political and historical commonalities between the continent and the rest of the world. As such, the novels discussed in this study are not simply ‘about’ Africa: these fictionalnarratives position Africa as a central actor within the global history of late capitalism. |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | Novel; Literature and Postcolonial Studies; Global literature; World-literary framework; Geopolitical; Gl |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50955-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-50957-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-50955-1Series ISSN 2634-6095 Series E-ISSN 2634-6109 |
issn_series | 2634-6095 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |