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Calibrations : reading for the social / / Ato Quayson



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Autore: Quayson Ato Visualizza persona
Titolo: Calibrations : reading for the social / / Ato Quayson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.896
Soggetto topico: African literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Marxist criticism
Mimesis in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Calibrations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9303-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814203303321
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Serie: Public worlds ; ; v. 12.