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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover)
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover)
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This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks
through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in
the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial
literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World
literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He
draws from many key works - Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea,
Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear - to establish the main contours of
tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole
Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett
and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by
which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key
texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and
augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo
(taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of
ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book
from a leading critic in literary studies.
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