Exit: Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life
If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirable.This collection of essays, which celebrates the achievement of the Swedish Africanist and postcolonial scholar Raoul Granqvist, deal with the broad theme of exit - in the form of exile, displacement, suicide, endings and, indeed, beginnings. After all, In my end is my beginning (T.S. Eliot).Childhood as exit rite in contemporary African literature (Camara Laye's IL'Enfant Noir /Iand Ishmael Beah's ILong Way Gone/I); the Came…
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- ISBN: 978-90-420-3251-4
- EAN: 9789042032514
- Produktnummer: 11001704
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 315 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.2 cm 646 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 130
- Gewicht: 646
Über den Autor
Stefan Helgesson is an associate professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University, Sweden. Apart from his academic focus on southern African literature, postcolonialism, translation, and theories of world literature, he also freelances as a literary critic and recently published his first novel.
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