Research Catalog

Title

Social ethics and governance in contemporary African writing : literature, philosophy, and the Nigerian world / Nimi Wariboko.

Author

Wariboko, Nimi, 1962-

Publication

• New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

ix, 193 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Using cutting-edge philosophical analyses, this book highlights Nigerian literature's contributions to moral imagination, ethical discourse, postcolonial studies, and emancipatory politics"--

Series Statement

Black literary and cultural expressions

Uniform Title

Black literary and cultural expressions.

Subject

• Nigerian fiction > History and criticism
• Nigerian fiction > Philosophy
• Literature and society > Nigeria
• Social ethics in literature
• Literature and society
• Nigerian fiction
• Social ethics in literature
• Nigeria

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: A Map -- A Framework for Philosophical Analysis of Nigerian Literature -- The Academic Roadside Mechanic and Tokunbo Knowledges -- 1. Theoretical Hesitations: Ibadan Brown Roofs' Rusty Revival of Desires -- Introduction -- Temporality and Desire under the Brown Roofs -- Agboole and Care for Road-Bound Knowledge -- Agboole as a Vanishing Mediator -- University Discourse and the Agboole's Desire for Knowledge Acquisition -- Languaging Characters, Sexing Language, and Nothing -- Another Disparity: Infinity, Nothingness, and Spatiality -- Concluding Remarks: The Nature of Desire in Under the Brown Rusted Roofs -- 2. The Black Moon on the White Surface: A Philosophical Analysis of A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass -- Introduction -- The Split African: Blackass and Critical Theory -- Postcolonial Subjectivity and Postcolonialism -- The Parallax View of the Blackass -- The Unchangeable Black Yansh -- Theory of Dream -- The Character Igoni -- Furo as a Synthetic Ideal -- Being and Becoming in the Annals of Blackass -- The Nonconcluding Ending of the Novel -- Unconscious, Truth, and Human Being as Praxis -- Concluding Reflections: Sankofa Bird's Eye View -- 3. Bad Governance and Postcoloniality: Literature as Cultural Criticism -- Introduction -- The Postcolonial Incredible and Nihilism -- The Postcolonial Differance and Politics of Not-Knowing -- Governance and Time Gap -- Leadership and Governance -- Excremental Postcolonialism and Literature -- 4. From Executed God to Ozidi Saga: Ethos of Ijo Democratic Republicanism -- Introduction -- The Executed God -- Politics of Interruption: The Volcanic Core of Social Relations -- The Weight of Ozidi: Long Live the People! -- Conclusion -- 5. Comedy as Dialectics: Laughing Nigeria to Human Flourishing -- Introduction -- The Comedy of McEdo Pikin -- From Format of Comedian's Joke to Philosophical Methodology -- 6. Literature and Ethics -- Introduction -- Literary Analysis as Ethical Methodology -- From a Story-Formed Community to Story-Formed Methodology -- Concluding Remarks.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8584

ISBN

• 9781501398087
• 1501398083

LCCN

2022025133

OCLC

1328141170

Author

Wariboko, Nimi, 1962- author.

Title

Social ethics and governance in contemporary African writing : literature, philosophy, and the Nigerian world / Nimi Wariboko.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black literary and cultural expressions

Black literary and cultural expressions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Form:

Online version: Wariboko, Nimi. Social ethics and governance in contemporary African writing New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 9781501398094 (DLC) 2022025134

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8584