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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.
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.
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of
intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's
Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and
political isolation in two of the world's most renowned
non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson
demonstrates how Russian writing's "Golden Age" in the troubled
nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers
both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated
literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the
limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies
and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a
more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly
global horizons.
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of
intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's
Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and
political isolation in two of the world's most renowned
non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson
demonstrates how Russian writing's "Golden Age" in the troubled
nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers
both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated
literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the
limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies
and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a
more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly
global horizons.
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