Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture, 1st Edition

.\nThis book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.\nPostmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture 1st Edition is written by Andrew Nyongesa and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction are 9781003854807, 100385480X and the print ISBNs are 9781032577609, 1032577606. Additional ISBNs include 9781032577623, 9781003440888, 9781003854784.