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Literary Setting and the Postcolonial City in No Longer at Ease.
- Source :
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Research in African Literatures . Fall2021, Vol. 52 Issue 3, p62-86. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper considers Achebe's No Longer at Ease in terms of its modest canonical fortunes and its peculiar formal construction. The paper argues that the novel's urban setting is produced through an emergent and local noir style, that this setting indexes the increasing centrality of the city in late colonial African life, and that it formally responds to the success of Achebe's rural Things Fall Apart and its problematic status as a paradigmatic African text. The paper suggests that No Longer at Ease 's foreign and local horizons of interpretation, as symptoms of an ongoing imperial world-system, are internalized and symbolically resolved by the novel's instantiation of Lagos as chronotope. The paper's methodological intervention offers a hermeneutics of literary setting through which to elaborate the relationships between form, literary institutions, and material conditions in the postcolony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *POSTCOLONIAL analysis
*PRECEPT (Canon law)
*HERMENEUTICS
*CHRONOTOPE
*COLONIES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00345210
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Research in African Literatures
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157186410
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.04