عنوان

The Logic of Capital and the Possibility of Resistance in Chris Abani's Graceland

شماره

TLpq2431831560

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Logic of Capital and the Possibility of Resistance in Chris Abani's Graceland

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Smith, Caleb

نام ساير پديدآوران

Forter, Greg

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of South Carolina

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

نام خاص و کميت اثر

48

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of South Carolina

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

This paper argues that Chris Abani's GraceLand, in the structuring both of the novel's diegetic and non-diegetic materials and of the presence of labor in the narrative, offers a model of how particularity can effect resistance to capital through iterative survival. The argument begins with a close explication of Dipesh Chakrabarty's deconstructive reading of Capital, demonstrating how the phenomenon of capital operates and proliferates through a logical structure that simultaneously necessitates and must eradicate the particular labors and histories that 'precede' any given instance of capital. With this theoretical framework in hand, the argument looks to James. M. Hodapp, whose analysis of the role of the kola nut in Abani's novel as a signifier of precolonial West-African culture that continues to survive and signify in the non-diegetic sections of a book about postcolonial Nigeria serves as a way into reading the interplay of GraceLand's non-diegetic and diegetic materials as the iterative alternation of capital's simultaneous need to sustain and to destroy the particular histories which "precede" it, concluding that it is actually the repetition of the particular in the logic of capital that performs a kind of resistance and holds open the possibility of a future where the particular outlasts capital. Then, the argument responds to the common refrain amonst Hodapp and other critics that GraceLand's narrative demonstrates only the degenerative, destructive drive and consequences of postcolonial capital, suggesting that Elvis Oke's iterative labors as a dancer and Elvis Presley impersonator actually repeat his experiences of precolonial Igbo culture, which for him are bound up with the feminine and the precolonial, and, moreover, that Elvis's persistent return to these labors despite repeatedly getting caught up in the dehumanizing labors imposed upon him by capital again point to the possibility of resistance to capital through the iterative survival of its antecedents.

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Forter, Greg

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Smith, Caleb

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y