Description
| Product ID: | 9781108830980 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Ato Quayson |
| Page Count: | 346 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Medieval Western philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Shakespeare studies & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and non-specialists alike. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-21 |