Calibrations : Reading For The Social /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Quayson, Ato
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Calibratie.
Close reading.
Postkolonialisme.
Letterkunde.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Marxist criticism.
African literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Mimêsis dans la litterature.
Critique marxiste.
Litterature africaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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