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Allegory and Meaning

- Reading African, African American, and Caribbean Literature
Af: Ikenna Dieke Engelsk Paperback

Allegory and Meaning

- Reading African, African American, and Caribbean Literature
Af: Ikenna Dieke Engelsk Paperback
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Allegory and Meaning is the study of the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. The discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers'' use of the allegorical mode is a serious attempt to recover the subtext of their works. The stories these writers tell are quite often thinly veiled. The events, characters, space, and time in their narratives are presented, first in their literal context, and then, in the other, larger context, the ideas that they are intended to convey or the significance they potentially bear. From Soyinka''s political allegory in Season of Anomy to Okigbo''s astral kratophany in Labyrinths; from Baraka''s agonistic moral allegory in Palace of the Peacock, and V.S. Reid''s apocalyptic allegory in New Day, these writers demonstrate the processes of double signification where the order of words represents actions and characters, and the actions and characters in turn represent ideas.
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Allegory and Meaning is the study of the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. The discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers'' use of the allegorical mode is a serious attempt to recover the subtext of their works. The stories these writers tell are quite often thinly veiled. The events, characters, space, and time in their narratives are presented, first in their literal context, and then, in the other, larger context, the ideas that they are intended to convey or the significance they potentially bear. From Soyinka''s political allegory in Season of Anomy to Okigbo''s astral kratophany in Labyrinths; from Baraka''s agonistic moral allegory in Palace of the Peacock, and V.S. Reid''s apocalyptic allegory in New Day, these writers demonstrate the processes of double signification where the order of words represents actions and characters, and the actions and characters in turn represent ideas.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 188
ISBN-13: 9780761851219
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0761851216
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: postkolonial litteratur
Udg. Dato: 2 sep 2010
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 155mm
Højde: 232mm
Forlag: University Press of America
Oplagsdato: 2 sep 2010
Forfatter(e): Ikenna Dieke
Forfatter(e) Ikenna Dieke

Kategori Litteraturstudier: postkolonial litteratur

ISBN-13 9780761851219

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 188

Udgave

Længde 11mm

Bredde 155mm

Højde 232mm

Udg. Dato 2 sep 2010

Oplagsdato 2 sep 2010

Forlag University Press of America