Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature…
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature.
Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. He draws from many key works - Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear - to establish the main contours of tragedy. 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
Tragedy and Hope
Tragedy and Hope
Triumph and Tragedy
Brecht and Tragedy
Christ, Ethics and Tragedy
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