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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814203303321

Autore

Quayson Ato

Titolo

Calibrations : reading for the social / / Ato Quayson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9303-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Public worlds ; ; v. 12

Disciplina

809/.896

Soggetti

African literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Marxist criticism

Mimesis in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Literature, anthropology, and history in Ghosh's In an antique land -- 2. Social imaginaries in transition: culture heroism and the genres of everyday life -- 3. African postcolonial relations through a prism of tragedy -- 4. Symbolization compulsions: Freud, African literature, and South Africa's process of truth and reconciliation -- 5. Disability and contingency -- 6. Literature and the parables of time.

Sommario/riassunto

Ato Quayson uses a method of reading he calls calibrations: a reading of literature with what lies beyond it as a way of understanding structures of transformation, process, and contradiction that inform both literature and society. He surveys texts ranging from Bob Marley lyrics, Toni Morrison's work, Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, and Althusser's reflections on political economy.