The Role of the Surreal in Postcolonial African Writing
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Joshua Isaac Kumwenda
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Creating a situation that is beyond the ordinary stems from the author's desire to create utopia amidst the engulfing dystopia and the search for relevant aesthetics to satisfy that desire. It therefore requires the reader to unravel the illogical through which such texts create their meanings and assert their ideologies. Using the case of Legson Kayira's writing, this paper observes that the surreal takes many dimensions and is the main vehicle for expressing ideology among many African writers in the sense that the dominant narratives and counter-narratives of the texts are aligned with it. As such, whether a text is wholly surrealist or merely informed by the surrealist mode of expression, there is a particular logic that is shrouded in the illogical, the extraordinary and the impractical. I draw on Legson Kayira's Jingala (1967) and The Detainee (1974) to show how these texts rely on the surreal as the main vehicle for interrogating the postcolonial African reality and positing the author's ideology.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
152-168
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
50/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
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اصطلاح موضوعی
aesthetics
اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Studies & World Literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
counter-narrative
اصطلاح موضوعی
Criticism & Theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural History
اصطلاح موضوعی
dystopia
اصطلاح موضوعی
ideology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature and Cultural Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
surrealism
اصطلاح موضوعی
ubuntu
اصطلاح موضوعی
utopia
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