Relocating agency
modernity and African letters
by Olakunle George
"Combining 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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African literature (English), Agent (Philosophy) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Decolonization in literature, History, History and criticism, In literature, Literature and society, Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, African literature, history and criticismPeople
Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, D. O. Fagunwa, Wole SoyinkaTimes
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Relocating agency: modernity and African letters
2003, State University of New York Press
in English
0791455424 9780791455425
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.
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