Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

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  • Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Book Detail

  • Author : Ato Quayson
  • Release Date : 2021-01-21
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 347
  • ISBN 13 : 1108924956
  • File Size : 29,29 MB
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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