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- Title: Tropologies of Tradition and (Post)Modernity in Nwagwu's Forever Chimes (Mark Nwagwu)
- Author : CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 96 KB
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Richly textured and heavily nuanced. Infinitely multi-layered. Generously invested with cultural signifying codes and idioms. A vast cosmological canvas deeply etched with tropes and metaphors which unveils the cultural and civilizational continuum of African and Black peoples over the epochs. A powerful distillation of existential realities that negotiate and interrogate the human condition. A gripping narrative that exists at the intersection of tradition and (post)modernity, continuity and mutability. A novelistic universe that unveils and conflates History and contemporaneity in a harmony of temporal formations. A tale of philosophical depths and theological insights each jostling for ascendancy. A story that participates in the subtle tensions and resolutions that govern and define the human world. A quarry of ideas. And a mosaic of ideals. The critical perspective in key words and concepts I suggest above perhaps captures the integral and fluid world of Forever Chimes and constitutes it as a narrative space that resonates with a plurality of negotiated and re-negotiated meanings. Written by Mark Nwagwu, a professor of zoology at the University of Ibadan, the novel, like its author, is a fusion of full-valued voices and putative perspectives, a multi-voicedness that is reminiscent of heteroglossic fictional narratives. In evaluating the fiction of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin identifies a multiplicity of speaking voices which are crucial in the determination of meaning. Each of these competing voices is ideologically positioned and politically motivated such that the textual entities become veritable battlegrounds for the contestation of warring forms of epistemologies representative of specific power structures. Bakhtin refracts Dostoyevsky's fiction as constructed around this idea of heteroglossia instituting a carnival of voices evoking the Tower of Babel experience except that in Dostoyevsky's fiction, the voices are coherent, clear, and are invested with significations that inhabit spaces which are contested and contestable.