Title Calibrations : reading for the social / Ato Quayson

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description xl, 179 pages ; 24 cm Series Public worlds ; v. 12 Public worlds ; v. 12 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index Subject People with disabilities in literature. African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Marxist criticism. Mimesis in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. LC no. 2003002161 ISBN 081663839X acid-free paper 0816638403 PB acid-free paper

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