Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation

Tragedy, Space, and Literary Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-009-31395-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quayson, Ato

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: interdisciplinarity by degrees: reflections on the sources of ideational infrastructure; 2. Instrumental and synoptic interdisciplinarity: concepts, boundaries, and protocols of proposition-making; Part I. Tragedy, Ethics, Disability: 3. Disputes with vehemence and unruly affective economies: Hedda Gabler, Ezeulu, Hamlet, and Tyler Perry's Straw; 4. Symbolization compulsions; 5. On postcolonial suffering: George Floyd and the scene of contamination; 6. Aesthetic nervousness: a new typology of disability representations; Part II. Space and Spatiality: 7. Postcolonial spatialities; 8. Chronotopes, spatial traversal, and the means of locomotion; 9. Spatial morphologies: city, literature, film; 10. Trotro multilingualism: polysemy and deterritorialization in the public commons of Accra; Part III. Magical Realism, African Literature, Diaspora: 11. Magical realism and the African novel; 12. Space, time, and magical realism; 13. Fecundities of the unexpected: magical realism, narrative, and history; 14. Postcolonialism and the diasporic imaginary; 15. Realism and its disguises in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

Über Autor(innen)

Quayson, Ato
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.