Calibrations : reading for the social

Publication Data

• Title Calibrations : reading for the social
• Author Ato Quayson
• Publisher University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Minneapolis
• Language English

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.

Topics

• African literature :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• Marxist criticism
• Mimesis in literature
• Postcolonialism in literature

Calibrations : reading for the social by Ato Quayson. ISBN 081663839X. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.