Calibrations by Ato Quayson PAPERBACK 9780816638406

CalibrationsReading for the Social\nAuthor(s): Ato Quayson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816638406, 978-0816638406\nSynopsis\nProposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of reading\n\nAto 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.\n\nQuayson surveys a wide array of texts-ranging from Bob Marley lyrics, Toni Morrisons work, Walter Benjamins Theses on t.