Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index
1. Literature, anthropology, and history in Ghosh’s In an antique land -- 2. Social imaginaries in transition: culture heroism and the genres of everyday life -- 3. African postcolonial relations through a prism of tragedy -- 4. Symbolization compulsions: Freud, African literature, and South Africa’s process of truth and reconciliation -- 5. Disability and contingency -- 6. Literature and the parables of time.
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