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ISBN: 0691122121 0691122113 9786612087295 1282087290 1400826837 9781400826834 9780691122113 9780691122120 Year: 2005 Volume: *2 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
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Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.? Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice. The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture.
English literature --- Politics and literature --- African literature --- Comparative literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Politics in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- English and African. --- African and English. --- Utopian literature --- Political science in literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literature, Comparative --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Philology
ISBN: 0791462617 0791462625 9780791462621 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press
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By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this text examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of 'the canon' can serve.
African fiction --- Comparative literature --- Intertextuality. --- Literature, Comparative --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- History and criticism. --- African and English. --- English and African. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Africa --- In literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Intertextuality --- Philology --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- English and African --- African and English --- History and criticism --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Conrad, Joseph --- CONRAD (JOZEF TEODOR KONRAD NALECZ KORZENIOWSKI, DIT JOSEPH), 1857-1924 --- LITTERATURE COMPAREE --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- Postcolonialisme --- POSTCOLONIALISME --- AFRIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- INTERTEXTUALITE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- ANGLAISE ET AFRICAINE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Dans la littérature --- AFRIQUE
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