Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe write by Kenneth Usongo. This book was released on 2021-03-09. Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters. Even though these features indicate the preponderance of the belief in the supernatural by some people of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and traditional Igbo societies, Shakespeare and Achebe primarily use the supernatural to represent the states of mind of their protagonists. Both writers appropriate supernatural features to mirror tragic flaws such as ambition, arrogance, impulsiveness, and fear that contribute to the downfall of Macbeth, Lear, Okonkwo, and Ezeulu. We relate to some of these characters because they project our inner minds, principal drives that may be hidden within us. Therefore, Shakespeare and Achebe’s preoccupation with the supernatural adds subtlety to their characterization and enhances their readability by situating their art beyond time, place, or particularity.
Magical Realism in Africa
Magical Realism in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism in Africa write by Sarali Gintsburg. This book was released on 2024-10-14. Magical Realism in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent. The chapters in this book constitute a sustained and insightful reflection on the salient components of this literary genre as well as evaluating its connections to themes of conflict, violence, women’s rights, trauma, oppression, culture, governance, and connecting to the African self. As well as theorizing magical realism, this book engages with African expressive performance across various formats, novels, plays, and films. This book investigates African magical realism from its origins up to the present day, where local oral traditions link indigenous cosmogonic stories with Western literature, as well as with the specific narrative traditions of Arabo‐Islamic literature. The rich analysis draws on works from across the continent, including Egypt, Sudan, Mauritania, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, and Mozambique. This book is a timely contribution to debates within African literature, cultural anthropology, ethnography, and folklore.
Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction
Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction write by Wessam Elmeligi. This book was released on 2023-08-29. Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeligi to formulate a poetics of literary theory to read Arabic literature, this book examines Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of social causes of psychological distress. The selected novels combine works by authors already established in studies by Western scholars and many that have not been translated before or have not received enough scholarly attention, yet. The novels represent an array of Arab countries, including Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian, Syrian, and Tunisian authors. It also highlights the contribution of women authors to Arabic speculative fiction. This book enriches the conversation about what is quite possibly a significant speculative fiction turn in the Arabic novel, as well as provides a new theoretical approach to read such complex and innovative literature.
Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary
Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary write by Shazia Sadaf. This book was released on 2023-09-26. Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistani authors extend the genre in new directions by challenging the cognitive majoritarianism (usually Western) in this field. Responding to the recent Afro science fiction movement that has spurred non-Western writers to seek a democratization of the broader genre of speculative fiction, Pakistani writers have incorporated elements from djinn mythology, Qur'anic eschatology, "Desi" (South Asian) traditions, local folklore, and Islamic feminisms in their narratives to encourage familiarity with alternative world views. In five chapters, this book analyzes fiction by several established Pakistani authors as well as emerging writers to highlight the literary value of these contemporary works in reconciling competing cognitive approaches, blurring the dividing line between "possibilities" and "impossibilities" in envisioning humanity’s collective future, and anticipating the future of human rights in these envisioned worlds.
Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard
Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard write by Carolyn Lau. This book was released on 2023-07-28. Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes that Ballard’s novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard’s novels remind us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism.
