Reviews for Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa

The average rating for Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-04 00:00:00 Michael Embry An elegant and insightful reading into the early works of Coetzee's fiction (and sometimes non-fiction), meaning I appreciated his analysis of these novels, an analysis that stuck closely to the text and reimagined the problems that Coetzee's novels create for the reader: the dialogue between text and imagination, the dialogues in the novels themselves, the silence of the other, the projection of story on to the other, the question of what the master narrative is.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-02 00:00:00 Randy Simpson This book synthesizes a remarkable corpus of research that details almost the entire history of Nigerian novels from the perspective of their writers, readers, and publishers. THEN, as if this weren't enough, the book turns to the novels themselves in order to analyze and catalog their contents. That Nigeria, itself, has a relatively confined number of authors and books that might be directly attributed to its nation does not undercut the importance of this contribution, which not only is massively comprehensive, but also suggests what role novels play outside a Western context.