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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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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/08/2003
      ISBN13: 9780816638406, 978-0816638406
      ISBN10: 0816638403

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      Table of Contents
      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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