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.
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