Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 336 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Postnational Arguments in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah and B. Kojo Laing
Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 336 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-0970-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
The book starts with an analysis of nationalist rhetoric and ideology as exemplified by works such as Things Fall Apart. Thereafter, it dedicates a chapter each to B. Kojo Laing's novels and Nuruddin Farah's Trilogy (Maps, Gifts, and Secrets) as articulations of a globalized, postnational reality. At the heart o the book is an analysis of a nuanced and complex experience of global modernity as Africans reassess the constants of nationalist discourse: culture, identity, locality, and territoriality. Ngaboh-Smart does not believe that the postnational phenomenon is necessarily detrimental to the national-state and argues that it may well be capable of generating a new form of individual agency, although he is critical of those writers who ignore the new power dynamic inherent in globalization. Moving beyond the “clash of cultures” paradigm, Ngaboh-Smart's account of the renegotiation of national identity and ideology is a significant contribution to the criticism of African literature and its link to global social processes.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Nationalism and the Aporia of the National Identity Nuruddin Farah's Maps
2 Gifts, Narratives, Identitities, and the Postcolonial Nuruddin Farah's Gifts
3 Desire and the Limits of the Modern Nation Nuruddin Farah's Secrets
4 Counter-Nationalist Narrative B. Kojo Laing's Search Sweet Country
5 Beyond Empire and Nation: Re-Narrating Identity in B. Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes
6 Science and the Space of the Modern African Nation B. Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars
Conclusion
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