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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

By: Ato Quayson

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

By: Ato Quayson

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108830986

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Aesthetic Nervousness

Disability and the Crisis of Representation

By: Ato Quayson

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Aesthetic Nervousness

Disability and the Crisis of Representation

By: Ato Quayson

Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied that the body is provisional and temporary and that normality is wrapped up in certain social frameworks. Quayson expands his argument by turning to Greek and Yoruba writings, African American and postcolonial literature, depictions of deformed characters in early modern England and the plays of Shakespeare, and children's films, among other texts. He considers how disability affects interpersonal relationships and forces the character and the reader to take an ethical standpoint, much like representations of violence, pain, and the sacred. The disabled are also used to represent social suffering, inadvertently obscuring their true hardships.

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Columbia University Press

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0231139020

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Oxford Street, Accra

City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

By: Ato Quayson

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Oxford Street, Accra

City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

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In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra's salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.

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Duke University Press

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0822376296

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9780822376293

Aesthetic Nervousness

Disability and the Crisis of Representation

By: Ato Quayson

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Disability and the Crisis of Representation

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

By: Ato Quayson

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

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Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

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Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri

By: Ato Quayson

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Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri

By: Ato Quayson

. . . a sophisticated and thoughtful study." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A very impressive work . . . in the concreteness of its research documentation as well as in its theoretical scope, this study brings a truly innovative dimension to African literary scholarship, and indeed to the whole field of African studies." —Abiola Irele, Ohio State University "The discussion reveals a combination of formidable analytical and critical strength with a refreshingly open-minded and sensible approach to his field." —Karin Barber, University of Birmingham

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Indiana University Press

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0253211484

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9780253211484

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

By: Ato Sekyi-Otu

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Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

By: Ato Sekyi-Otu

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Consisting of five intertwined essays, the book claims that centering such arguments and commitments on a particular place, in this instance the African world, is entirely compatible with that foundational universalism. Ato Sekyi-Otu thus proposes a less conventional mode of Africacentrism, one that rejects the usual hostility to universalism as an imperialist Eurocentric hoax. Sekyi-Otu argues that universalism is an inescapable presupposition of ethical judgment in general and critique in particular, and that it is especially indispensable for radical criticism of conditions of existence in postcolonial society and for vindicating visions of social regeneration. The constituent chapters of the book are exhibits of that argument and question some fashionable conceptual oppositions and value apartheids. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of social and political philosophy, contemporary political theory, postcolonial studies, African philosophy and social thought.

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Routledge

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042987801X

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9780429878015

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri

By: Ato Quayson

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Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri

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Indiana University Press

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0253211484

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Kettner's Book of the Table

A Manual of Cookery -- Practical, Theoretical, Historical

By: Auguste Kettner,Ato Quayson

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Kettner's Book of the Table

A Manual of Cookery -- Practical, Theoretical, Historical

By: Auguste Kettner,Ato Quayson

Fashionable restaurants for public dining in the grand manner were a Victorian innovation, and in London there were few to rival that of Auguste Kettner, formerly chef to Napoleon III, who opened his Soho establishment in 1867. Kettner's quickly became renowned for champagne, gaiety and gastronomic delights, attracting the custom of leading members of society, the stage and the literary world including King Edward VII and Oscar Wilde. In 1877, Kettner was persuaded to share the benefit of his skill and knowledge of cookery, and this delightful book is the result. Witty, worldly and wonderfully wise, it is a culinary A to Z - from absinthe to zest -- that embraces every Victorian speciality you might want to cook, eat or know about, embellished with anecdotes and gossip. There are recipes aplenty, given in the narrative style of the period, but this is much more than a cookbook -- it is an intimate look at late Victorian and Edwardian society life in its privileged heyday.

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Kegan Paul International

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0710310846

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9780710310842

Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

By: Dening,Ato Quayson,Keith Crome,James Williams

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Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

By: Dening,Ato Quayson,Keith Crome,James Williams

To the Japanese, Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1536-1598) is one of Japan's greatest figures, so revered that he was made a Shinto deity after his death. Statesman and solider, he was the architect of the New Japan centuries before it came into existence, and his personal qualities and vision imprinted themselves on the national character. Hideyoshi is both a historical figure and a semi-mythic symbol of the nation, and Dening addresses both aspects of his life in this classic study. Following Hideyoshi from humble beginnings to the heights of political power and ending with the conflict that followed his death and led to the seizing of power by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Dening's account reads almost like one of the monogatari of old, and this is its great strength, for while describing Toyotomi's political achievements in great detail, he is above all able to convey the strength and nature of the inspiration the nation continues to draw from him.

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Routledge

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0710311001

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9780710311009

Redrawing the Map

Two African Journeys

By: Gabriel Gbadamosi,Ato Quayson

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Redrawing the Map

Two African Journeys

By: Gabriel Gbadamosi,Ato Quayson

Their essays each explore the transnational connections between Africa and the West, with Gbadamosi focusing on the effects of an African presence in Brixton Market, and Quayson contemplating the state of Nigeria and the contradictions of nationalism. Both authors make free use of the literary imagination to sketch their vision, while anchoring their arguments in historical analysis.

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Prickly Pear (UK)

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1891754033

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9781891754036

No Easy Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

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No Easy Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

This collection of Mandela's speeches, letter and writing vividly illustrates the magnetic attractions of one of the foremost campaigners for freedom the world has known. This new edition with revised notes and introduction is a valuable historicaldocument and chronicle of the life and thoughts of a man whose name is synonymous with the fight for human rights and self-determination.

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Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

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0141439300

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9780141439303

Book's by Ato Quayson

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Aesthetic Nervousness

Aesthetic Nervousness

Oxford Street, Accra

Oxford Street, Accra

Aesthetic Nervousness

Aesthetic Nervousness

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Kettner's Book of the Table

Kettner's Book of the Table

Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Redrawing the Map

Redrawing the Map

No Easy Walk to Freedom

No Easy Walk to Freedom

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