Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Book • 2014
Seven Modes of Uncertainty is Namwali Serpell's scholarly book that investigates different formal techniques authors use to produce uncertainty in literary texts.
Drawing on close readings across various authors, Serpell categorizes and theorizes how uncertainty functions aesthetically and ethically.
The work emerged from her dissertation and was published with an academic press, marking her early career in literary scholarship.
It lays the conceptual groundwork that Serpell later engages with more publicly in On Morrison.
The book is a contribution to critical theory and literary studies on ambiguity and interpretive indeterminacy.
Drawing on close readings across various authors, Serpell categorizes and theorizes how uncertainty functions aesthetically and ethically.
The work emerged from her dissertation and was published with an academic press, marking her early career in literary scholarship.
It lays the conceptual groundwork that Serpell later engages with more publicly in On Morrison.
The book is a contribution to critical theory and literary studies on ambiguity and interpretive indeterminacy.
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