Tragedy and postcolonial literature /
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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: tragedy and the maze of moments
- 2. Ethical cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare's Othello
- 3. History and the conscription to colonial modernity in Chinua Achebe's rural novels
- 4. Ritual dramaturgy and the social imaginary in Wole Soyinka's tragic theatre
- 5. Archetypes, self-authorship, and melancholia: Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North
- 6. Form, freedom, and ethical choice in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- 7. On moral residue and the affliction of second thoughts: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
- 8. Enigmatic variations, language games, and the arrested bildungsroman : Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
- 9. Distressed embodiment and the burdens of boredom: Samuel Beckett's postcolonialism
- 10. Conclusion: postcolonial tragedy and the question of method.