The African Novel of Ideas : : Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing / / Jeanne-Marie Jackson.
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Disaggregating Liberalism
- PART I NATIONAL HORIZONS
- chapter 1 Ethiopia Unbound as Afro-Comparatist Novel: The Case for Liberated Solitude
- Chapter 2 Between the House of Stone and a Hard Place: Stanlake Samkange’s Philosophical Turn
- PART II GLOBAL RECESSIONS
- Chapter 3 A Forked Path, Forever: Kintu between Reason and Rationality
- Chapter 4 Bodies Impolitic: African Deaths of Philosophical Suicide
- Epilogue: Speculations on the Future of African Literary Studies
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index