Minna Johanna Niemi

Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing (eBook, PDF)

The Postcolony Revisited

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. This book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, postcolonial studies, and peace and conflict studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429642449
• Artikelnr.: 61272817

Autorenporträt

Minna Johanna Niemi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Culture at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Challenging Moral Corruption in the Postcolony: Ayi Kwei
Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Hannah Arendt's Notion of
Individual Responsibility 2. Totalitarian Politics and Individual
Responsibility in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians 3.
Intellectual Commitment and Complicity in South-African Resistance Writing
during Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee and André Brink 4. Uprooted Intellectuals:
Multidirectional Identifications and Traumatic Distress in Ayi Kwei Armah's
Fragments and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions 5. Seductive Promises
of Wealth: Ideological Misrecognition and Avoidance of Responsibility in
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and This Mournable
Body 6. Representing Childhood Complicity and Hiding behind the Law in
Michiel Heyns's The Children's Day 7. War, Guilt and Childhood Fantasies of
Aggression in Nuruddin Farah's Maps 8. Western Readers and African
Narratives: Towards Complicitous and Responsible Reading Strategies