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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,190
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover): Ato Quayson

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Hardcover)

Ato Quayson

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2021
Authors: Ato Quayson
Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-83098-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
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LSN: 1-108-83098-6
Barcode: 9781108830980

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