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Social ethics and governance in contemporary African writing : literature, philosophy, and the Nigerian world / Nimi Wariboko.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.05 .W37 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Black literary and cultural expressions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nigerian fiction--History and criticism.
- Nigerian fiction.
- Nigerian fiction--Philosophy.
- Literature and society--Nigeria.
- Literature and society.
- Social ethics in literature.
- Nigeria.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Using cutting-edge philosophical analyses, this book highlights Nigerian literature's contributions to moral imagination, ethical discourse, postcolonial studies, and emancipatory politics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A Map
- A Framework for Philosophical Analysis of Nigerian Literature
- The Academic Roadside Mechanic and Tokunbo Knowledges
- 1. Theoretical Hesitations: Ibadan Brown Roofs' Rusty Revival of Desires
- Introduction
- Temporality and Desire under the Brown Roofs
- Agboole and Care for Road-Bound Knowledge
- Agboole as a Vanishing Mediator
- University Discourse and the Agboole's Desire for Knowledge Acquisition
- Languaging Characters, Sexing Language, and Nothing
- Another Disparity: Infinity, Nothingness, and Spatiality
- Concluding Remarks: The Nature of Desire in Under the Brown Rusted Roofs
- 2. The Black Moon on the White Surface: A Philosophical Analysis of A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass
- The Split African: Blackass and Critical Theory
- Postcolonial Subjectivity and Postcolonialism
- The Parallax View of the Blackass
- The Unchangeable Black Yansh
- Theory of Dream
- The Character Igoni
- Furo as a Synthetic Ideal
- Being and Becoming in the Annals of Blackass
- The Nonconcluding Ending of the Novel
- Unconscious, Truth, and Human Being as Praxis
- Concluding Reflections: Sankofa Bird's Eye View
- 3. Bad Governance and Postcoloniality: Literature as Cultural Criticism
- The Postcolonial Incredible and Nihilism
- The Postcolonial Differance and Politics of Not-Knowing
- Governance and Time Gap
- Leadership and Governance
- Excremental Postcolonialism and Literature
- 4. From Executed God to Ozidi Saga: Ethos of Ijo Democratic Republicanism
- The Executed God
- Politics of Interruption: The Volcanic Core of Social Relations
- The Weight of Ozidi: Long Live the People!
- Conclusion
- 5. Comedy as Dialectics: Laughing Nigeria to Human Flourishing
- The Comedy of McEdo Pikin
- From Format of Comedian's Joke to Philosophical Methodology
- 6. Literature and Ethics
- Literary Analysis as Ethical Methodology
- From a Story-Formed Community to Story-Formed Methodology
- Concluding Remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wariboko, Nimi. Social ethics and governance in contemporary African writing
- ISBN:
- 9781501398087
- 1501398083
- 9781501398070
- 1501398075
- OCLC:
- 1328141170
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