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The African Novel of Ideas.
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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.
RUSДжин-Мэри Джексон исследует, как африканские писатели соединяют философское размышление с социальным опытом. Книга анализирует литературу Ганы, Зимбабве, Уганды и Южной Африки от начала XX века до современности, предлагая новый взгляд на роль философии в африканской интеллектуальной т
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 350
- Release Date:
- 2025-08-26
- Publication Date:
- 2025-08-26
- Publisher:
- BiblioRossica
- Languages:
- Original: Russian
- ISBN13:
- 9798887199481
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 658 g
- Height:
- 157 cm
- Width:
- 235 cm
- Thickness:
- 23 cm
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