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- W2897537889 abstract "The central concern of this study is exploration of possibilities of a dialogic interaction between texts and Western criticism. Its preoccupations are difficulties in producing a responsible and ethical mode of relationship between Western Critical Practice and text. This problem is posed in terms of inter-cultural hermeneutics and constitutes an ongoing agenda concerning how texts have been and should be read. I term this agenda the aesthetics of reception. Dialogue assumes a two-way exchange. Linking texts under discussion is fact that they are inter-cultural works that operate within a multiple discursive environment. Many Postcolonial literary texts, whilst drawing on diverse indigenous aesthetic traditions, also interrogate and transform Western orders of representation. They are built upon indigenous and Western aesthetics. I term study of this complexity the aesthetics of production. The Aesthetic, as well as a body of theory on art, is also a discourse of body and sensation. Part of thesis explores representation of body in writing of Neil Bissoondath and V.S. Naipaul. I examine implications of their bodily style on historical representation and upon category of postcolonial itself. My short-hand for these issues is the aesthetics of embodiment. The writers discussed comprise two Nigerians (Tutuola and Okri) , one Ghanaian (Armah) and two Trinidadians (Naipaul and Bissoondath). The thesis is, therefore, a study of diversity and cultural difference. I have chosen such disparate texts (with important proviso that all are written in English) in order to test performativity of concept of postcolonial under stress of this diversity. The thesis is not a piece of conventional literary criticism, nor a comprehensive account of authors in its remit. Literary texts are occasion for investigation of hermeneutic and theoretical issues presented by textuality. The texts under discussion therefore share equal precedence with secondary materials from ethnography, literary criticism and critical theory. The overall task of thesis lies in challenge of reading texts in a spirit of ethical dialogue and exploration of difficulties of achieving such an ambition." @default.
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- W2897537889 title "Aesthetics, postcolonialism and the literary text : a study in cultural differences with particular reference to the work of Ayi Kwei Armah, Neil Bissoondath, V.S. Naipaul, Ben Okri and Amos Tutuola" @default.
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