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Relocating Agency : Modernity and African Letters.
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| 著者・編者 | George, Olakunle, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies |
| 出版社 | (State University of New York Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2003 |
| ページ数 | 247 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-38545＞ |
解説
A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.
2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
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.