The African Novel of Ideas (eBook)

Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Autor)

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2021
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21240-1 (ISBN)

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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 "e;philosophical suicide"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adom Getachew • AFRICANIST • African literature • African Philosophy • Age of Enlightenment • Akan comparative methodology • Ambivalence • Americanah • Andrew Van der Vlies • assassination • author • Bildung • Career • Chimamanda Adichie • Chinua Achebe • Civility • Colonialism • Comparative Literature • comprador • Cosmopolitanism • Criticism • critique • cross-cultural • Dambudzo Marechera • Death and the King's Horseman • Decolonization • Determination • Digression • Duke University • Dynamism (metaphysics) • Edward Said • Elleke Boehmer • Epistemology • Ethiopia Unbound • Explanation • Fante • fatalistic politics • First principle • Genre Fiction • ghostwritten • global literature • Harare • His Family • historical fiction • Historiography • History of the novel • Humanism • Ideology • imperialism • Inception • Individualism • Individuation • Institution • Intellectual history • J. E. Casely Hayford • Kwame Gyekye • liberal critique • Liberalism • liberal selfhood • liberation • Literary criticism • literary fiction • Literary Studies • Literature • Lobengula • mathematician • Modernity • mukherjee • Mukoma Wa Ngugi • Nadine Gordimer • Nancy Armstrong • narrative • Nationhood • New York University • Novel • novelist • orality • Pennsylvania State University • Personhood • Philosopher • philosophical fiction • Philosophy • Political Philosophy • Politics • Postcolonialism • post-structuralism • Poverty porn • Present Imperfect • Publishing • Queen Mary University of London • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Rationality • reason • Religion • Robert Mugabe • Self-Actualization • sensibility • sibling • Spirituality • Stanford University • Structuring • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Suicide • Suicide by hanging • Teju Cole • The Art of Being • theory • Theory of the Novel • The Other Hand • The Rise of the African Novel • Things Fall Apart • Thought • Trade-off • treatise • truism • Uganda • University of Bristol • University of Cape Town • University of Houston • World literature • Worldmaking After Empire • Writer • Writing • Yi-Ping Ong • Zimbabwe
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21240-6 / 0691212406
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21240-1 / 9780691212401