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Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters » (New Edition)
Authors: Olakunle George
ISBN-13: 9780791455425, ISBN-10: 0791455424
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Olakunle George
Book Synopsis
A concern with the agency of human beings in culture and history lies at the heart of various struggles within Anglo-American theory and criticism, says George (English, U. of Oregon). He brings to the question evidence from the related but nominally different discursive formation of African literature and criticism, which he invokes under the broader term of African letters. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Issues and Context: On Knowledge as Limit | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Contemporary Theory and the Demand for Agency | 29 |
| Ch. 3 | The Logic of Agency in African Literary Criticism | 73 |
| Ch. 4 | D. O. Fagunwa as Compound of Spells | 105 |
| Ch. 5 | Wole Soyinka and the Challenge of Transition | 145 |
| Epilogue | 187 | |
| Notes | 197 | |
| Works Cited | 211 | |
| Index | 223 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism African Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Nonfiction Philosophy Philosophical Positions & Movements
Nonfiction Social Sciences African Studies
Nonfiction All Nonfiction African Studies
Philosophy Philosophical Positions & Movements Free Will & Determinism
Science & Nature Social Sciences African Studies
Social Sciences African Studies African Literature
Literary Criticism African LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismNonfiction
Philosophy Philosophical Positions & MovementsNonfiction
Social Sciences African StudiesNonfiction
All Nonfiction African StudiesPhilosophy
Philosophical Positions & Movements Free Will & DeterminismScience & Nature
Social Sciences African StudiesSocial Sciences
African Studies African Literature
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