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Author Quayson, Ato.

Title Calibrations [electronic resource] : reading for the social / Ato Quayson.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

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Description xl, 179 p.
Series Public worlds ; v. 12
Public worlds ; v. 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Marxist criticism.
Mimesis in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 081663839X (acid-free paper)
0816638403 (PB : acid-free paper)

 
    
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