Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Quayson Paperback Cambridge University Press
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature\n\nProvides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.\n\nAto Quayson (Author)\n\n9781108926195, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 29 May 2025\n\n348 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.565 kg\n\nJean\n\nThis book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works \u2013 Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear \u2013 to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Wester]
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