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Decolonisations of Literature - Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945 (Hardcover)
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Decolonisations of Literature - Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 26
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. This book sets out
to understand how the meaning of 'literature' was transformed in
the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional
contexts in South Africa (mainly Johannesburg), Brazil (Sao Paulo),
Senegal (Dakar) and Kenya (Nairobi), and engages with critical
writing in English, Portuguese and French. Critics studied in the
book include Antonio Candido, Tim Couzens, Isabel Hofmeyr, Es'kia
Mphahlele, Leopold Senghor, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
By reading these intellectuals of the Global South as producers of
theory and practice in their own right, the book attempts to
demonstrate the contingency of what is her called the worlding of
the concept of literature. 'Decolonisation' itself is seen as a
contingent, non-linear process that unfolds in a recursive dialogue
with the past. In a bid to offer a more grounded approach to world
literature, a key objective of this study is therefore to
investigate the accumulation of temporalities in institutional
histories of critical practice. To reach this objective, it engages
the method of conceptual history as developed by Reinhart Koselleck
and David Scott, demonstrating how the concept of 'literature' is
resemanticised in ways that dialectically both challenge and
consolidate literature as a concept and practice in post-colonised
societies.
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