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dc.contributor.authorNiemi, Minna Johanna
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-01T07:48:50Z
dc.date.available2018-10-01T07:48:50Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-13
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s <i>The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born</i> (1968), which portrays a nameless protagonist who clings to his own ethics as he resists corruption in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana in the 1960s, an instance of what Achille Mbembe has called the postcolony. This situation bears comparison with Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy, which emphasises individual responsibility in political situations in which common democratic norms no longer apply. Based on Arendt’s insights, I claim that the ethical choices of Armah’s nameless individual suggest a way towards a better communal future. This article further suggests that Arendt’s political philosophy – read in critical dialogue with theorisations of the African postcolony – can offer valuable analytical approaches to discussions of moral decay in postcolonial Africa.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAcademy of Finlanden_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>Postcolonial Studies</i> on 13 August 2017, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13688790.2017.1363782> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13688790.2017.1363782</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNiemi, M.J. (2017). Challenging moral corruption in the postcolony: Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Hannah Arendt’s notion of individual responsibility. Postcolonial Studies, 20(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2017.1363782en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1498818
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13688790.2017.1363782
dc.identifier.issn1368-8790
dc.identifier.issn1466-1888
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13883
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.relation.journalPostcolonial Studies
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Afrikansk litteratur: 058en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::African literature: 058en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160::Filosofi: 161en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160::Philosophy: 161en_US
dc.subjectHannah Arendten_US
dc.subjectAyi Kwei Armahen_US
dc.subjectthe postcolonyen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonial literatureen_US
dc.subjecttotalitarianismen_US
dc.titleChallenging moral corruption in the postcolony: Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Hannah Arendt’s notion of individual responsibilityen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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