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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

By Ato Quayson

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

By 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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
348
Release Date:
2021-03-31
Publication Date:
2021-01-21
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1108830986
ISBN13:
9781108830980
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
716 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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