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El. knyga: African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

  • Formatas: 232 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Princeton University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780691212401
  • Formatas: 232 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Princeton University Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780691212401

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An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The 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 “philosophical suicide” 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.

Recenzijos

"Honorable Mention for the Book of the Year Award, African Literature Association" "Jackson raises essential questions for a field yet to appreciate fully the extent to which African literature contributes to and problematizes disciplinary debates. . . . The African Novel of Ideas provides excellent navigation across an impressive and conceptually challenging range of material."---Joseph Hankinson, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation "The African Novel of Ideas, which draws impressively on literature from all Anglophone regions of sub-Saharan Africa, is an important study not only for those of us who think with African literature but also for those who are invested in a more thoughtful comparative method."---Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen, Research in African Literatures "The African Novel of Ideas gives us a historiographical exposition of how the intellectual landscape of pre- and post-independence Akan literature is determined by a struggle of competing philosophical principles rather than by a clearly delineated dichotomy of colonialist dialectics."---Benjamin Kreitz, Theoria "Jackson is a muscular, masterful critic who strikes many blows, and strikes them with pinpoint accuracy. She puts her argument forth in a lucid and polemical fashion that dispatches with many of the regnant orthodoxies of African studies. . . . [ S]he offers a vision of African literature that is indisputably worthwhile and challenging. Her book should open important debates within African studies, at the very least asking critics to take more seriously an alternate canon of African writing and thinking."---Timothy Wright, Comparative Literature

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Disaggregating Liberalism 1(18)
Book Structure 19(4)
Chapter Summaries and Conceptual Guide 23(6)
PART I NATIONAL HORIZONS
29(76)
Chapter 1 Ethiopia Unbound as Afro-Comparatist Novel: The Case for Liberated Solitude
31(37)
Comparison between the Global and the Decolonial
33(16)
J. E. Casely Hayford and Philosophy as Historical Redemption
49(11)
Flash-Forward: Implications for the Postcolonial Angh-Fante Novel
60(8)
Chapter 2 Between the House of Stone and a Hard Place: Stanlake Samkange's Philosophical Turn
68(37)
The Public Intellectual in Late Rhodesia
70(9)
The Mourned One and the Search for Replicable Selfhood
79(11)
Hunhuism or Ubuntuism: Philosophy as Way of Life
90(6)
Coda: Samkange's Literary Surrounds
96(9)
PART II GLOBAL RECESSIONS
105(76)
Chapter 3 A Forked Path, Forever: Kintu between Reason and Rationality
107(38)
"The Great Ugandan Novel" as Periodizing Device
109(14)
Reading Kintu's Twins: Individuation versus Subjectivization
123(14)
Curses as History in Recent East African Fiction
137(8)
Chapter 4 Bodies Impolitic: African Deaths of Philosophical Suicide
145(36)
Philosophical Suicide as a Conceptual Tool
147(9)
Tendai Huchu's Maestro of Lonely Learning
156(10)
Imraan Coovadia's Measured Thinking
166(9)
Coda: Masande Ntshanga's The Reactive and the Rewards of Self Affliction
175(5)
Conclusion
180(1)
Epilogue: Speculations on the Future of African Literary Studies
181(1)
Notes 181(18)
Works Cited 199(14)
Index 213
Jeanne-Marie Jackson is assistant professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author of South African Literatures Russian Soul.