{"id":17281,"date":"2022-04-20T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?p=17281"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T07:28:03","slug":"elit-seminar-chinua-achebe-the-invention-of-lagos-liam-kruger-5pm-22-april-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/elit-seminar-chinua-achebe-the-invention-of-lagos-liam-kruger-5pm-22-april-en\/","title":{"rendered":"ELIT Seminar: \u201cChinua Achebe &#038; the Invention of Lagos\u201d, Liam Kruger, 5PM 22 April (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"moz-text-html\" lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<p>Lecture: &#8220;Chinua Achebe &amp; the Invention of Lagos,&#8221; by Liam Kruger<\/p>\n<p>Date &amp; Time: Friday 22 April, 17:00 \u2013 18:00<\/p>\n<p>Zoom: Please contact to the department<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chinua Achebe &amp; the Invention of Lagos&#8221; considers Chinua Achebe&#8217;s No Longer at Ease (1960) in terms of its canonical marginality and its paradoxically profound influence on African fiction. This talk will argue that notwithstanding the novel&#8217;s tendency to cite canonical works of European modernism, its urban setting is principally produced by drawing on an emergent and vernacular tradition of detective fiction; that this setting indexes the increasing centrality of the city in late colonial African life; and that it formally responds to the success of Achebe&#8217;s rural Things Fall Apart (1958) and its problematic status as a paradigmatic African text. By producing Lagos as a chronotope, as a particular kind of place, No Longer at Ease succeeds in internalising and symbolically resolving the contradiction posed by the novel&#8217;s foreign and local horizons of interpretation, as symptoms of an ongoing imperial world-system.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Kruger is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he writes about the postcolonial novel, the sociology of culture, and aesthetic theory. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Research in African Literatures, and College Literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture: &#8220;Chinua Achebe &amp; the Invention of Lagos,&#8221; by Liam Kruger Date &amp; Time: Friday 22 April, 17:00 \u2013 18:00 Zoom: Please contact to the department &#8220;Chinua Achebe &amp; the Invention of Lagos&#8221; considers Chinua Achebe&#8217;s No Longer at Ease (1960) in terms of its canonical marginality and its paradoxically [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/elit-seminar-chinua-achebe-the-invention-of-lagos-liam-kruger-5pm-22-april-en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17282,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281\/revisions\/17282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}