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Calibrations [electronic resource] : reading for the social / Ato Quayson.

By: Quayson, Ato.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Public worlds: v. 12.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003Description: xl, 179 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Marxist criticism | Mimesis in literature | Postcolonialism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.896 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.