Quayson Quayson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4993274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Quayson Quayson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Quayson |
| FAMILY NAME | Quayson |
| SIGNATURE | QUAYSON Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Afterword
Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste Ato Quayson The absence of the name of Simon Gikandi as the author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste in my title is no failure of recognition. Rather, it is to signal my suspicion that this is a book that will make its way in the world without the need for a proper name. Several of such books in literary studies spring readily to mind. Thus, in no order of prior…
Self-Writing and Existential Alienation in African Literature
While there have been many representations of existential alienation in African literature, there has as yet been no coherent attempt to explore the variety of ways in which it might be seen in operation. Taking as a starting point the damning remarks that Chinua Achebe makes on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, this essay extrapolates a working definition of existential alienation with reference to Foucault and Bakhtin, and t…
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Self-Writing and Existential Alienation in African Literature
While there have been many representations of existential alienation in African literature, there has as yet been no coherent attempt to explore the variety of ways in which it might be seen in operation. Taking as a starting point the damning remarks that Chinua Achebe makes on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, this essay extrapolates a working definition of existential alienation with reference to Foucault and Bakhtin, and t…
Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste Ato Quayson The absence of the name of Simon Gikandi as the author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste in my title is no failure of recognition. Rather, it is to signal my suspicion that this is a book that will make its way in the world without the need for a proper name. Several of such books in literary studies spring readily to mind. Thus, in no order of prior…
Afterword
Political science (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Alienation (1 work)