Ato Quayson: 2 books
Aesthetic Nervousness
Disability and the Crisis of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled...
Oxford Street, Accra
City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his...