Description
Book Synopsis"This study focuses on the role of the philosophical novel--a genre that favors abstract concepts, or 'thinking about thinking,' over style, plot, or character development--and the role of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent"
Trade Review"Jackson raises essential questions for a field yet to appreciate fully the extent to which African literature contributes to and problematizes disciplinary debates. . . .
The African Novel of Ideas provides excellent navigation across an impressive and conceptually challenging range of material."
---Joseph Hankinson, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation"
The African Novel of Ideas, which draws impressively on literature from all Anglophone regions of sub-Saharan Africa, is an important study not only for those of us who think with African literature but also for those who are invested in a more thoughtful comparative method."
---Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen, Research in African Literatures"
The African Novel of Ideas gives us a historiographical exposition of how the intellectual landscape of pre- and post-independence Akan literature is determined by a struggle of competing philosophical principles rather than by a clearly delineated dichotomy of colonialist dialectics."
---Benjamin Kreitz, Theoria
