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Speaking Politically
- Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
Engelsk Paperback

Speaking Politically

- Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
Engelsk Paperback

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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literary world, the book also showcases Adorno’s unique reading of the literary text both in terms of its innate historical content and formal aesthetic attributes.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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
142
ISBN-13:
9780367750831
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
036775083X
Udg. Dato:
31 maj 2023
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
150mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
31 maj 2023
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