Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

by Ato Quayson

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 King Lear - to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108830986
• ISBN13: 9781108830980
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"