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"The Grain of Sand in the Machine:" Accidents of Language and the Writer-Intellectual in Southern Africa, 1960s-the Present
"The Grain of Sand in the Machine:" Accidents of Language and the Writer-Intellectual in Southern Africa, 1960s-the Present
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152723
- ISBN
- 9798342711616
- DDC
- 809
- 서명/저자
- The Grain of Sand in the Machine: Accidents of Language and the Writer-Intellectual in Southern Africa, 1960s-the Present
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 252 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hofmeyr, Isabel.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약"The Grain of Sand in the Machine:"Accidents of Language and the Writer-Intellectual in Southern Africa takes a comparative approach to the post-independence southern African intellectual, redefining this figure as someone who intervenes in public discourse and mediates between figurative language and its material effects. I explore the work of several Anglophone intellectuals - Bessie Head, Phaswane Mpe, Thabo Mbeki, and Namwali Serpell - each of whom intervenes in dominant discourses of "development" in the region. In doing so, I draw on the concept of language as "performative:" a force which acts independently of an individual speaker or writer, and which influences a range of material phenomena - from infectious diseases, to environmental degradation, to the generation and effects of various technologies. The writer-intellectual, I propose, claims agency over the material force of language; however, their intervention is often followed by its own unintended consequences - something I demonstrate by analyzing the uneven and unexpected reception of the texts I study. While postcolonial theories of the intellectual have focused on their role as a witness and an advocate for the less powerful, I argue that their key intervention takes effect in the sphere of language, while recent developments in theories of the "performative" raise the stakes of public intellectual work.
- 일반주제명
- Comparative literature
- 일반주제명
- Language
- 일반주제명
- Linguistics
- 일반주제명
- African history
- 일반주제명
- South African studies
- 키워드
- Ecocriticism
- 기타저자
- New York University Comparative Literature
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■793 ▼aEnglish
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