UID:
edoccha_9961574136602883
Format:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031509551
Series Statement:
New Comparisons in World Literature Series
Note:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Danger of the Single Reading -- Tragic and Helpless: The Single Story of Africa -- The Danger of the Single Reading -- A Re-reading Methodology -- References -- Chapter 2: Reading Africa in the Neoliberal World-System -- Incomplete and Unfinished: The Utopian Potential of 'Tragic Africa' -- References -- Chapter 3: The Longer Walk to Freedom: South African Prophecy and Neoliberal Intervention upon 'Tragic Africa' -- The Long Game of Nongqawuse's Prophecy -- The Presentness of the Past in The Heart of Redness -- 'Many different paths to progress': From 'divide and rule' to Democratic Negotiation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: 'Africa awaits its creators': Subverting Development Narratives -- 'One copy': The World of GraceLand -- Waiting in Vain: GraceLand as 'failed' bildungsroman -- Power to the People: Music and Collective Agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Back to Utopia: Retrieving the Past to Reclaim the Future -- The Possibility of Utopian Thinking in Half of a Yellow Sun -- Anticolonial Nationalism and Extra-National Identity in Half of a Yellow Sun -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Towards a Kind of Paradise -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rushton, Amy Re-Reading Tragic Africa Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031509544
Language:
English
