UID:
almahu_9949386830902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000368970
,
1000368971
,
9781003005810
,
1003005810
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9781000369021
,
1000369021
Series Statement:
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Content:
In this monograph Theodor Adorno's philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity - apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet's dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it argues that Adorno can speak to texts with which he is not historically associated; and second, it uses Adorno's theory to unlock the liberatory potential of authors or novels traditionally understood to be "apolitical". While addressing Adorno's uneven critical response and dissemination in the Anglophone literary world, the book also showcases Adorno's unique reading of the literary text both in terms of its innate historical content and formal aesthetic attributes. Such a reading refuses to read postcolonial texts exclusively as political documents, a problematic (but changing) tendency within postcolonial studies. In short, the book operates as a two-way conversation asking: "What can Adorno's concepts give to certain literary texts?" but also reciprocally, "What can those texts give to our conventional understanding of Adorno and his applicability?" This book is an act of rethinking the literary in Adornian terms, and rethinking Adorno through the literary
Note:
Introduction: Speaking Politically, Not Politics -- Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and an Alternative Political Commitment -- Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold and its Quiet Politics -- Karapanou's Kassandra and the Wolf and Truth Content -- Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and the Non-Identical -- Conclusion: Writing about flowers at a time like this.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367437937
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367437930
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003005810
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003005810
