Calibrations : reading for the social /
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 Morrisons wor...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Public worlds ;
v. 12. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of 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.
