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Ato Quayson - Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation

Tragedy, Space, and Literary Studies

Av Ato Quayson

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Ato Quayson is one of the foremost literary scholars and critics of our times. His latest - characteristically ambitious and wide-ranging - volume offers an innovative way of thinking about interdisciplinarity. The book revisits fields where its author's work has been most influential: tragedy, space and spatial theory, and literary studies. It advances bold interpretations of the confluences and overlapping concepts at the heart of several areas of study, including - among others - African and Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, Urban Studies, History, and Anthropology. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the ways in which the humanities help to generate fresh insights. Exploring the concept of interdisciplinarity in a cumulative, incremental fashion, the book leads its readers through a process of discovery about the methodological and conceptual borrowings between various disciplines. It will surprise and delight anyone who is engaged by the roles and status of literary studies today.
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Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and of English and inaugural Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. He has published six monographs and ten edited collections, including the award-winning Oxford Street, Accra (2014), Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Decolonizing the Literary Curriculum (Cambridge University Press, 2023, co-edited with Ankhi Mukherjee) and The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2023, co-edited with Jini Kim Watson). He is an elected Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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'The intellectual adventures of Ato Quayson have taken him around the world, from study and teaching in Accra and Cambridge through Toronto and New York to San Francisco. Just as wide-ranging has been the scope of his research. Disability, race, urban life, and postcolonial tragedy are among the demanding subjects that he has incisively unpacked.  Now his dialectical, interdisciplinary energies and massive knowledge of world literature converge in a collection that shows his abilities at full stretch. If you want to know about writing and space, magical realism, African lorry slogans, or Hamlet, here is the place to start. Wide-angled, precise, inclusive, this is a one-stop introduction to the work of a major scholar.' John Kerrigan, Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge

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