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Title:Post-dialectic: politics in postcolonial African fiction
Author:Gaylard, GeraldISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Volume:15
Issue:1
Pages:135-150
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subject:literature
Abstract:This paper describes and analyses the political agenda of current African writers. These writers attempt to fill the lacuna of uncertainty about the political in the postcolonial era, when the clear enemy provided by colonialism and neocolonialism is not always quite so apparent. Their attempt to find political agency is via a rigorous critique of the Marxist dialectic utilized by African nationalism, a critique which, at the least, extends that dialectic into a constellation of multiple dialectics and consequently defamiliarizes previous notions of the political. The politics of this fiction might be described as dissident, and its aesthetics is nothing if not inclusive. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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