Coming back to text in literary analysis: A review of Roberto Gaudioso’s The Voice of the Text and its Body. The Continuous Reform of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Poetics

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Notes

1 Ricard (2000, ix–xvi) describes the state of isolation that has accompanied Hussein’s life and works, in respect of their reception both by readers and by critics in the 1970s.

2 A review is not the place for an excursus into epistemology, but I can say that I share Gaudioso’s views on the role of induction and intuition in literary criticism. All academic research tries to justify its arguments from a scientific perspective, but in my opinion, this does not mean that we should limit ourselves to deduction and syllogistic reasoning. Moreover, it is a mistake to think that induction has no role in the natural sciences. I think that African Studies would benefit from a discussion of its own epistemological premises.