Calibrations
Subtitle: reading for the social
By: Ato Quayson.
Series: Public worlds ;; v. 12
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Marxist criticism.; Mimesis in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Literature, anthropology, and history in Ghosh's In an antique land; title: 2. Social imaginaries in transition: culture heroism and the genres of everyday life; title: 3. African postcolonial relations through a prism of tragedy; title: 4. Symbolization compulsions: Freud, African literature, and South Africa's process of truth and reconciliation; title: 5. Disability and contingency; title: 6. Literature and the parables of time.