02806nam 2200661 a 450 991045222980332120200520144314.00-8166-9303-X(CKB)1000000000346842(EBL)310634(OCoLC)476095328(SSID)ssj0000116826(PQKBManifestationID)11140987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116826(PQKBWorkID)10035647(PQKB)10114679(MiAaPQ)EBC310634(OCoLC)191930392(MdBmJHUP)muse38933(Au-PeEL)EBL310634(CaPaEBR)ebr10151161(CaONFJC)MIL522663(EXLCZ)99100000000034684220030203d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCalibrations[electronic resource] reading for the social /Ato QuaysonMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20031 online resource (221 p.)Public worlds ;v. 12Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3840-3 0-8166-3839-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.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.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.Public worlds ;v. 12.African literature20th centuryHistory and criticismMarxist criticismMimesis in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureElectronic books.African literatureHistory and criticism.Marxist criticism.Mimesis in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.809/.896Quayson Ato621183MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452229803321Calibrations2063068UNINA