African Novel of Ideas - Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Jeanne-Marie Jackson Klappentext "This study focuses on the role of the philosophical novel--a genre that favors abstract concepts, or 'thinking about thinking,' over style, plot, or character development--and the role of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent" Zusammenfassung An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne-Marie Jackson
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780691186450
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18645-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, Literature: history and criticism