Calibrations : Reading For The Social

提出一種全新的社會和政治意識的閱讀方式。 Ato Quayson探索了一種在不同領域之間迅速振蕩的閱讀實踐 - 文學 - 審美、社會、文化和政治 - 以揭示這些領域的相互啟發性。他這樣做並不是為了斷言經常重複的後現代主義觀點，即文本之外沒有任何內容，而是要概述一種他稱之為校準的閱讀方法：一種對文學進行仔細閱讀的形式，其中有超越它的東西作為理解變換結構的一種方式，過程和矛盾，為文學和社會提供信息。 Quayson調查了大量的文本 - 包括Bob Marley的歌詞，Toni Morrison的作品，Walter Benjamin的歷史哲學論文，以及Althusser對政治經濟學的反思 - 並且討論了廣泛的主題：異化的比較結構。文學和人類學，文化英雄主義作為非洲社會和政治的轉折點，文學悲劇作為閱讀Ken Saro-Wiwa生活和活動的模板，創傷和後種族隔離時期南非的公民身份，身體殘疾的表現，以及後殖民文本中魔法和幻想時間之間的衝突。

Proposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of reading. Ato Quayson explores a practice of reading that oscillates rapidly between domains--the literary-aesthetic, the social, the cultural, and the political--in order to uncover the mutually illuminating nature of these domains. He does this not to assert the often repeated postmodernist view that there is nothing outside the text, but to outline a method of reading he calls calibrations: a form of close 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. Quayson surveys a wide array of texts--ranging from Bob Marley lyrics, Toni Morrison's work, Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, and Althusser's reflections on political economy--and treats a broad range of themes: the comparative structures of alienation in literature and anthropology, cultural heroism as a trope in African society and politics, literary tragedy as a template for reading the life and activism of Ken Saro-Wiwa, trauma and the status of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa, representations of physical disability, and the clash between enchanted and disenchanted time in postcolonial texts.

   Ato Quayson (Autor)

Publisher:Univ Of Minnesota Press 

ISBN:    978-0816638390 

原價   US 72 台幣價 NT$2235