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The African Novel of Ideas - Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (Paperback)
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The African Novel of Ideas - Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (Paperback)
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An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to
African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The
African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical
novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual
life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to
today. Examining works from the Gold Coast, South Africa, Uganda,
and Zimbabwe, and tracing how such writers as J. E. Casely Hayford,
Imraan Coovadia, Tendai Huchu, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and
Stanlake Samkange reconcile deep contemplation with their social
situations, Jeanne-Marie Jackson offers a new way of reading and
understanding African literature. Jackson begins with Fante
anticolonial worldliness in prenationalist Ghana, moves through
efforts to systematize Shona philosophy in 1970s Zimbabwe, looks at
the Ugandan novel Kintu as a treatise on pluralistic rationality,
and arrives at the treatment of "philosophical suicide" by current
southern African writers. As Jackson charts philosophy's evolution
from a dominant to marginal presence in African literary discourse
across the past hundred years, she assesses the push and pull of
subjective experience and abstract thought. The first major
transnational exploration of African literature in conversation
with philosophy, The African Novel of Ideas redefines the place of
the African experience within literary history.
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