Quayson, Ato.

Calibrations reading for the social / [electronic resource] : Ato Quayson. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003. - xl, 179 p. ; 24 cm. - Public worlds ; v. 12 . - Public worlds ; v. 12. .

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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2009.
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African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Marxist criticism.
Mimesis in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.


Electronic books.

PN849.A35 / Q38 2003eb

809/.896