Ato Quayson

This lecture will pick up on an element of literary tragedy that Quayson raised in Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature but did not fully elaborate, namely, the place of disputatiousness in the history of tragic form and how this might help us to further tragedy from the Greeks to African literature. The Greeks give us great examples of disputatiousness: Oedipus vs. Tiresias, Clytemnestra vs Agamemnon, Medea vs Jason, and Antigone vs Creon, among others. But the determining mark of the Greek trag