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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African literature--History and criticism.--20th century Marxist criticism. Mimesis in literature. Postcolonialism in literature.