The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing

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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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Main Author: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / English language / Literature / Philosophy
Further subjects:B Poverty porn
B First principle
B Individualism
B Institution
B Treatise
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
B Suggestion
B J. E. Casely Hayford
B Duke University
B Liberalism
B Structuring
B Rationality
B Digression
B Trade-off
B Philosopher
B University of Cape Town
B Author
B Historical fiction
B Comparative literature
B Lobengula
B Theory
B Assassination
B African fiction (English) 21st century History and criticism
B Age of Enlightenment
B Civility
B Genre fiction
B Determination
B Suicide
B Decolonization
B Mukherjee
B Cross-cultural
B Harare
B Elleke Boehmer
B His Family
B Truism
B Personhood
B Things Fall Apart
B Stanford University
B University of Houston
B Novel
B Novelist
B Pennsylvania State University
B Religion
B African fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism
B Literary criticism
B Historiography
B Colonialism
B Robert Mugabe
B Writing
B Inception
B Philosophy in literature
B Literary fiction
B Racism
B Writer
B Career
B Nadine Gordimer
B Spirituality
B Post-structuralism
B Critique
B Political philosophy
B Explanation
B Nancy Armstrong
B Self-actualization
B Americanah
B Narrative
B Dynamism (metaphysics)
B Individuation
B Ideology
B Education (motif)
B Orality
B Ghostwritten
B African philosophy
B Literature
B Queen Mary University of London
B Intellectual history
B Thought
B Dambudzo Marechera
B Radicalism (historical)
B Subjectivity
B New York University
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Generals
B Philosophy
B Epistemology
B Edward Said
B Imperialism
B Sensibility
B Sibling
B Thought and thinking in literature
B Reason
B Ambivalence
B Publishing
B Death and the King's Horseman
B African literature
B Philosophical fiction
B University of Bristol
B Kwame Gyekye
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
B Criticism
B Chinua Achebe
B Mathematician
B Suicide by hanging
B Cosmopolitanism
B Modernity
B The Other Hand
B Uganda
B Zimbabwe
B Politics
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