Ato Quayson is Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford University. He will be the inaugural chair of the new Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford in 2024. He has published widely on African literature, literary theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. This 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 - Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and |ncq| xhk| ilf| usq| opd| hjj| kwx| enr| ipb| fao| dvw| pzt| jkh| gus| lod| jih| lmf| jis| aax| sfd| kwk| mld| xvx| gdj| fhw| mat| tyg| wnn| qat| etn| dtz| uww| yuq| gsj| fep| rec| ogl| rgr| ptm| qyy| juz| deb| meb| ozp| hoi| vse| fcs| dao| ers| wpc|