Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Synopsis: This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 136 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781003854807
Related ISBNs:: 9781003440888, 9781032577609, 9781032577623
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/29/24
Copyrighted By:: Andrew Nyongesa
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.