The imagination of freedom
Subtitle: critical texts and times in contemporary liberalism
By: Andrew Foley
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781868144921
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : liberal politics and liberal literature; title: 'To stab a country in the conscience' : Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country (1948); title: When worlds collide : Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart (1958); title: Allegories of freedom : Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1962); title: 'Befitting emblems of adversity' : Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems (1972-1975); title: Patriarchy, autonomy and liberal feminism : Fay Weldon's Praxis (1978); title: Violence, reconciliation and the ending of apartheid : Athol Fugard's drama (1984-1992); title: Power, will and freedom : Mario Vargas Llosa's The feast of the goat (2000); title: Postmodern liberal literature : Richard Rorty's 'liberal ironists' (1961-2006); title: Liberalism in the new millennium : Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005).