Tragedy And Postcolonial Literature

✍ Scribed by Ato Quayson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 347
Edition: 1st Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Title - complete......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
Chapter 1 - Introduction......Page 14
Chapter 2 - Ethical Cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare’s Othello......Page 57
Chapter 3 - History and the Conscription to Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels......Page 96
Chapter 4 - Ritual Dramaturgy and the Social Imaginary in Wole Soyinka’s Tragic Theatre......Page 137
Chapter 5 - Archetypes, Self-Authorship, and Melancholia......Page 169
Chapter 6 - Form, Freedom, and Ethical Choice in Toni Morrison’s Beloved......Page 199
Chapter 7 - On Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts......Page 226
Chapter 8 - Enigmatic Variations, Language Games, and the Arrested Bildungsroman......Page 251
Chapter 9 - Distressed Embodiment and the Burdens of Boredom......Page 277
Chapter 10 - Conclusion......Page 311
Bibliography......Page 323
Index......Page 340

✦ Subjects

Postcolonialism In Literature; Fiction: 20th Century: History And Criticism; Fiction: 21st Century: History And Criticism

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