Speaking Politically Adorno and Postcolonial by Eleni Philippou HARDBACK

Taylor & Francis

Speaking PoliticallyAdorno and Postcolonial Fiction\nAuthor(s): Eleni Philippou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367437930, 978-0367437930\nSynopsis\nIn this monograph Theodor Adornos philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochets 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 Adornos theory to unlock the liberatory potential of authors or novels traditionally understood to be \""apolitical\"". While addressing Adornos uneven critical response and dissemination in the Anglophone literary world, the book also showcases Adornos unique reading of the literary text both in terms of its innate historical content and formal aesthetic attributes. Such a .