Critic.Reading.Writing with Ato QUAYSON
Critic.Reading.Writing with Ato QUAYSON
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Announcing Magical Realism
Critic.Reading.Writing is taking a break for the month of May but we will return in June with a series of episodes on Magical Realism. Apart from defining what we mean by the term magical realism, the series will include the works of Amos Tutuola, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, Lauren Beuke, Toni Morrison and Laura Esquivel.
Thank you for your support of our channel and see you in June!
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REVIEW of URBAN STUDIES and SPATIAL THEORY
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад
This week’s episode will be a review of previous episodes we have shared on concepts in urban studies and spatial theories. The principle that space is not a container but a symptom and producer of social relations is central to urban studies. Concepts such as chronotopes, spatial traversal, and means of locomotion will be explored as vantage points from which to interpret urban space and the i...
TONI MORRISON, Jazz: Harlem, Jazz, and Narrative Counterpoints
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.3 года назад
Like James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” that we discussed last week, Toni Morrison’s Jazz is set in Harlem but in the 1920s. The novel is set after World War 1 thus also during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance, where a new cultural flowering of both music and literature took place that came to have resonance all over America and indeed in the rest of the world. Morrison’s novel uses jazz as...
JAMES BALDWIN, “Sonny’s Blues”: Rapture and the Ambient Menace
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.3 года назад
This week’s episode will be focusing on “Sonny’s Blues”, one of my favorite short stories of all time, by James Baldwin. The story is set in 1950s New York between Harlem and Greenwich Village and turns on the relationship between two brothers seven years apart. It is told from the older brother’s first-person perspective and is a series of memories couched as the difficult relationship between...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, Midaq Alley: Space and Historical Constriction
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.3 года назад
This week’s episode will be focusing on Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley and how it gives us an example of historical constriction in African literature. The novel is set predominantly in the Midaq Alley of the title, but we find that the setting is used to introduce us to a range of diverse characters from different social classes and backgrounds. More importantly, the ...
BLACK PANTHER and the Question of Black Atlantic Melancholy
Просмотров 9333 года назад
This week’s episode will focus on the film Black Panther (directed by Ryan Coogler). It will be argued that the film illustrates a form of Black Atlantic melancholy that connects the Black diaspora to the continent of Africa in a particularly complex way. It will also be shown that the theme of nostalgia in the film also allows us to think of the different forms of African dispersal not just to...
A REVIEW of POSTCOLONIALISM
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад
This week's episode is a snapshot overview of previous episodes on postcolonialism, Frantz Fanon "The Fact of Blackness", Shakespeare's Othello, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North. Apart from the distinction between the “post-” as a temporal marker and then as the insignia of a particular theoretical orientation, the episode will also lay out t...
DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE MATRIX: The Geometries of Space and Time
Просмотров 3383 года назад
So far we have deployed the concept of chronotope to interpret space in several previous episodes of Critic.Reading.Writing, such as those on the airport, the railway station, the Afro-Brazilians of Accra, and on Urban Studies more generally. Those earlier episodes were grounded on two assumptions, namely, that space is a symptom and producer of social relations, and second, that it is inherent...
FISTON MWANZA MUJILA, TRAM 83: Jazz Variations and Postcolonial Critique
Просмотров 9553 года назад
This week’s episode of Critic.Reading.Writing will be focused on Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83, which won the Etisalat Prize for African Literature in 2016 and the Rosegger Literary Prize in Austria in 2018. Tram 83 revolves around the fraught relationship between Requiem, an all-round hustler with a predilection for the oracular, and Lucien, a down-and-out historian and writer struggling to f...
THE RAILWAY STATION CHRONOTOPE in the Bourne Ultimatum
Просмотров 5863 года назад
This episode will build upon on the airport as chronotope from a couple of weeks ago. But this time we will be discussing the concepts of spatial traversal and the means of locomotion in relation to the chronotope of the railway station. This will be illustrated with reference to The Bourne Ultimatum. It will be shown how the space of London’s Waterloo Station is represented in the movie as ill...
WALTER MOSLEY’s Devil in a Blue Dress: Race, Noir, and Social Critique
Просмотров 8673 года назад
This week's episode focuses on Walter Moseley’s Devil in a Blue Dress. A contrast is drawn between the observation and deductive methods of the classic detective novel exemplified in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four that we saw last week and the noir detective form that we find in Moseley’s variant. We shall see how the entire social universe of Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins in post-WWII Los ...
THE SIGN OF FOUR: A Postcolonial Reading of Sherlock Holmes
Просмотров 6293 года назад
This episode will be focused on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four, the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series. Our interest here will be on how the modes of observation and deduction that Holmes deploys reveal his sense of the moral topography of London, the strangers that constitute its underclass and criminal worlds, and the relationship of all these to the British Empire. As in o...
SPATIAL ANALYSIS: The Airport as Chronotope
Просмотров 3,2 тыс.3 года назад
This episode will be devoted to illustrating spatial analysis through the concept of chronotope using the airport as an example. The term chronotope combines two words in Greek and simply means “space-time” and was adopted by the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to explain the ways in which spatial and temporal indices came together in an expressive spatial unity as a key aspect in the history ...
The AFRO-BRAZILIANS of ACCRA, 1836-Present Times
Просмотров 5 тыс.3 года назад
Today’s episode will be focused on the Afro-Brazilians of Accra and the ways in which they exemplify the relations between the New World and Africa and also illustrate forms of transnational cosmopolitanism that evades the usual Global North circuits via which the two terms are normally defined. A shipload of Afro-Brazilians returned to Accra in 1836 comprising 200 people made up of 70 families...
WHAT IS URBAN STUDIES?: A View from Oxford Street, Accra
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.3 года назад
In this episode we will be looking at the interdisciplinary field of urban studies to find out what we might learn about ideas pertaining to cities and urban evolution. We will be doing this from the perspective of the city of Accra, the capital of Ghana in West Africa. This is partly to counter the general tendency to adopt Western cities as the automatic sites for generating spatial theory. T...
WHAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARITY? : A View from the Humanities
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.3 года назад
WHAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARITY? : A View from the Humanities
WOLE SOYINKA's Death and the King's Horseman: Tragedy and Ritual Drama
Просмотров 16 тыс.3 года назад
WOLE SOYINKA's Death and the King's Horseman: Tragedy and Ritual Drama
ON THE ART AND PRACTICE OF WRITING
Просмотров 4 тыс.3 года назад
ON THE ART AND PRACTICE OF WRITING
ARUNDHATI ROY's The God of Small Things and the Arrested Development of Childhood
Просмотров 2,6 тыс.3 года назад
ARUNDHATI ROY's The God of Small Things and the Arrested Development of Childhood
J.M. COETZEE’s Waiting for the Barbarians: Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts
Просмотров 4,6 тыс.3 года назад
J.M. COETZEE’s Waiting for the Barbarians: Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts
ASA Presidential Lecture - STORIES and EMPATHY in a Time of Crisis: An African Viewpoint
Просмотров 3483 года назад
ASA Presidential Lecture - STORIES and EMPATHY in a Time of Crisis: An African Viewpoint
CHINUA ACHEBE’s Arrow of God: The Malaise of Colonial Modernity
Просмотров 8 тыс.3 года назад
CHINUA ACHEBE’s Arrow of God: The Malaise of Colonial Modernity
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA's Nervous Conditions: The Confluence of Colonialism, Education, and Patriarchy
Просмотров 14 тыс.3 года назад
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA's Nervous Conditions: The Confluence of Colonialism, Education, and Patriarchy
JEAN RHYS, Wide Sargasso Sea and the Genesis of Secrecy
Просмотров 12 тыс.3 года назад
JEAN RHYS, Wide Sargasso Sea and the Genesis of Secrecy
JOSEPH CONRAD’s Heart of Darkness: Representing Colonial Atrocity
Просмотров 13 тыс.3 года назад
JOSEPH CONRAD’s Heart of Darkness: Representing Colonial Atrocity
SHAKESPEARE's The Tempest and the Allegories of Colonialism
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 года назад
SHAKESPEARE's The Tempest and the Allegories of Colonialism
WHAT IS POSTCOLONIALISM?
Просмотров 15 тыс.3 года назад
WHAT IS POSTCOLONIALISM?
SHAKESPEARE's The Merchant of Venice: Anti-Semitism as Racism
Просмотров 3,3 тыс.3 года назад
SHAKESPEARE's The Merchant of Venice: Anti-Semitism as Racism
TAYEB SALIH, Season of Migration to the North: Orientalist Archetypes as Colonial Desire
Просмотров 8 тыс.3 года назад
TAYEB SALIH, Season of Migration to the North: Orientalist Archetypes as Colonial Desire
FRANTZ FANON, Black Skin, White Masks and the Black Bodily Schema
Просмотров 9 тыс.3 года назад
FRANTZ FANON, Black Skin, White Masks and the Black Bodily Schema

Комментарии

  • @jeanf8998
    @jeanf8998 19 часов назад

    Conrad was selling books to English readers. I wish he had taken sides but he chose not to. I’m not a fan of his work because I don’t think he’s a great craftsman.

  • @cephalonia71
    @cephalonia71 12 дней назад

    I loved this book!

  • @bohdanoryshkevich2140
    @bohdanoryshkevich2140 14 дней назад

    This talk provides insights into the pioneering importance and limits of Heart of Darkness, a profoundly psychologically engrossing and disturbing piece of literature.

  • @olwethusthandiwemahlangu9625
    @olwethusthandiwemahlangu9625 Месяц назад

    Great! giving thanks all the way from the University of Pretoria, South Africa

  • @gregorygraham4233
    @gregorygraham4233 Месяц назад

    Thank you. Exquisite summary and related elements from the beginning to the ending of the story.

  • @flowerpower000
    @flowerpower000 2 месяца назад

    Brilliant lecture, Professor. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.

  • @deon-daniiowusu6442
    @deon-daniiowusu6442 2 месяца назад

    🎉❤thank you very much, please can l get your email for further interaction because l am doing a project on this book

  • @christmokaga1922
    @christmokaga1922 3 месяца назад

    Please, how can we study sounds inside the novel? Musicality is it one of the strategies used by Toni Morrison?

  • @francescamelandri3895
    @francescamelandri3895 3 месяца назад

    thank you for this wonderful lecture

  • @janferwerda2498
    @janferwerda2498 3 месяца назад

    A wonderfull talk! I like this kind of thinking that does not shy away from moving inside places but also dares to move back out, to touch upon matter without getting lost in pure materiality: to also notice immaterial realities encoded in its material forms like indices of time, space and sociality. It made me think about a movie called 'The Terminal', where a man (played by Tom Hanks) is stuck and thus forced to live in a terminal and therefore out of tune with the chronotope of disagregation. I think this creates an oddness that we reconcile with laughter (humor). Is there any analysis of humor as a function of chronotopic transgression and how that is used in narrative fiction (or non-fiction) today?

  • @larss4119
    @larss4119 3 месяца назад

    Make more videos, please. We need them now, more than ever.

  • @indus7841
    @indus7841 3 месяца назад

    Building on your point of form preceeding content- the heart of darkness is a difficult read, it has an unusual word choice, long meandering sentences, and the piling up of adjectives like you mentioned. Also conrad will often talk about things not obviously relevant to the story. The same way Marlow had to navigate the river and hack thru the obscure jungle, we as readers are navigating thru Conrad's obscure sentences. Perhaps even becoming "obsessed" to reaching the end of the story.

  • @sunflowerbadger
    @sunflowerbadger 4 месяца назад

    That was wonderful, thank you. I've just read this book and now I want to read it again. I wish you had spent some extra time on the imagery of the narrator's world and the dynamics of his home village and his life as a civil servant. ❤❤❤ Oh, and now I need to see Othello too😂

  • @miramacanovic6435
    @miramacanovic6435 4 месяца назад

    Brilliant ❤

  • @ChukwumaOnyeijeMD
    @ChukwumaOnyeijeMD 4 месяца назад

    So, while "Arrow of God" can be viewed through an existential lens in some respects, it might be more accurate to consider these elements as part of its rich thematic structure rather than classifying the entire novel strictly as existentialist.

  • @howwhat9852
    @howwhat9852 4 месяца назад

    I am sorry you had to analyze this.

  • @heafreilly3741
    @heafreilly3741 4 месяца назад

    I am writing a paper and this helped a lot, great vid!

  • @sahraahmedkoshin
    @sahraahmedkoshin 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this analyses Prof.

  • @Kingstudio0074
    @Kingstudio0074 5 месяцев назад

    ❤ From India Sir👍

  • @unique_layo3750
    @unique_layo3750 5 месяцев назад

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @missk1942
    @missk1942 6 месяцев назад

    The Onion satirical article is brilliant!

  • @user-now499
    @user-now499 6 месяцев назад

    It was never Antisemitic.

  • @matthewkramer5702
    @matthewkramer5702 7 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed the lecture, but somewhat grating is the assertion near the outset that "The Tempest" was the last of Shakespeare's plays. It may have been the last of Shakespeare's sole-authored plays, but Shakespeare wrote at least a substantial portion (perhaps the whole, but at least a substantial portion) of "Henry VIII" after "The Tempest." Shakespeare probably also wrote a substantial portion of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" as the final drama in which he had a hand. "The Tempest" does tend to come across as Shakespeare's farewell to playwriting, but he was not quite finished with that activity when he wrote it.

  • @debarghyaroy9948
    @debarghyaroy9948 7 месяцев назад

    I have to admit, dearest professor, that I got hooked on to your lecture from the very beginning. I am certain it is one of the finest in RUclips.

  • @happygucci5094
    @happygucci5094 8 месяцев назад

    I hope you make more videos… please 🙏🏽 😊

  • @happygucci5094
    @happygucci5094 8 месяцев назад

    Suit is sharp Professor 👌🏽😊🔥

  • @muhammadijaz5982
    @muhammadijaz5982 9 месяцев назад

    Yours is incredibly profound, enriching and enlightening analysis Sir. The refrences are unique. The quality of presentation is incredible❤But Volume is little low.

  • @user-vp2sg1ew5q
    @user-vp2sg1ew5q 10 месяцев назад

    Is there a Transcript for this excellent talk?

  • @NatalleeK
    @NatalleeK 10 месяцев назад

    Your analysis of the relationship between the ilo and the evil forest is so interesting!

  • @helenemasour9256
    @helenemasour9256 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent

  • @rev.anthonyo.flaggsr.4141
    @rev.anthonyo.flaggsr.4141 11 месяцев назад

    Outstanding!

  • @ranjankumarrout3341
    @ranjankumarrout3341 11 месяцев назад

    This is one type of unique explanation....

  • @ranjankumarrout3341
    @ranjankumarrout3341 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you sir. I am Ranjan from India. I am doing PhD on Toni Morrison. Please make a criticism video on Toni Morrison's works. Please

  • @herculesskinny2030
    @herculesskinny2030 Год назад

    Afro Brazilians are speaded in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana Names like Domingo, Bonifacio, Pereira, and D'Souza are all descendants of Afro Brazilians.

  • @aaradhyabajpai1137
    @aaradhyabajpai1137 Год назад

    Sir , Is there any pdf ?

  • @aaradhyabajpai1137
    @aaradhyabajpai1137 Год назад

    Thank you,sir.

  • @GuerillaWelder
    @GuerillaWelder Год назад

    I came across your channel looking for insight in "waiting for the Barbarians" and you answered the question I was struggling with. I really enjoy your dialogue and the tenor of your voice. Thank you for giving the gift of your knowledge and interests to us.

    • @tootscarlson
      @tootscarlson 5 месяцев назад

      Fantastic book; love Coetzee. How did you like it?

    • @GuerillaWelder
      @GuerillaWelder 5 месяцев назад

      @@tootscarlson im working my way through McCarthy first lol but coetzee is a literary mountain with climbing for sure

  • @wagyenibee768
    @wagyenibee768 Год назад

    Elaudey my E upper floor mate. Boatuuu

  • @zeff_j
    @zeff_j Год назад

    Hi

    • @zeff_j
      @zeff_j Год назад

      Si la Quenta por favor

  • @bella7791
    @bella7791 Год назад

    It's very helpful thnx Prof 😊

  • @anshak2
    @anshak2 Год назад

    Prof, this is incredible. Thank you so much.

  • @wagyenibee768
    @wagyenibee768 Год назад

    AAALAUDEE.

  • @eesharaazia1445
    @eesharaazia1445 Год назад

    Someone please mention Bakhtin's original text which discusses chronotopes of aggregation & disaggregation. Need it for my thesis.

  • @edwinantonio4975
    @edwinantonio4975 Год назад

    Can you tell me about the sisterhood in nervous conditions pls ASAP

  • @Alejandrocasabranca
    @Alejandrocasabranca Год назад

    Seria bom se eles voltassem a falar português 😊assim seriam brasileiros 🇧🇷

  • @Noorjahan-ep3iz
    @Noorjahan-ep3iz Год назад

    Love from Pakistan ❤️💖😚 thank you

  • @josephdrach2276
    @josephdrach2276 Год назад

    Shakespeare was a Jew-hating, racist jerk. Thank You for showing more detail about his bigoted writings.

  • @newlightgreen7920
    @newlightgreen7920 Год назад

    Very helpful with teaching the play to my class- much appreciated

  • @prabhatmishra3042
    @prabhatmishra3042 Год назад

    This is the best analysis

  • @AminTheMystic
    @AminTheMystic Год назад

    If you are Black you waste your time on seeing race everywhere and in everything. It’s all you are supposed to do