Ato Quayson (California Stanford University)

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and non-specialists alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 234mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830980
• ISBN-10: 1108830986
• Artikelnr.: 60200497

Autorenporträt

Ato Quayson is Professor of English at Stanford University, California. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Toronto, and at New York University, and has held fellowships at the University of Oxford, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, Australian National University, and Wellesley College, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

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