Calibrations : reading for the social / Ato Quayson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quayson, Ato.

Series:

Public worlds ; v. 12.

Public worlds ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature.

Marxist criticism.

Mimesis in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-9303-X

OCLC:

476095328