Ato Quayson

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Ato Quayson is affiliated with the following schools: Stanford University, University of Ghana, University of Toronto, New York University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Ato Quayson is a Ghanaian literary critic and Professor of English at Stanford University where he acts as the current chair of the department. He is also the chair of the newly established Department of African and African American Studies. He was formerly a Professor of English at New York University , and before that was University Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto. His writings on African literature, postcolonial studies, disability studies, urban studies and in literary theory have been widely published. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada , and in 2019 was elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He was Chief Examiner in English of the International Baccalaureate , and has been a member of the Diaspora and Migrations Project Committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, and the European Research Council award grants panel on culture and cultural production . He is a former President of the African Studies Association.

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Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (2000) (242)
Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2007) (206)
African literature : an anthology of criticism and theory (2007) (194)
Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003) (78)
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (2014) (74)
A companion to diaspora and transnationalism (2013) (70)
Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri (1997) (63)
Realism, criticism, and the disguises of both: a reading of Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall apart' with an evaluation of the criticism relating to it (1994) (50)
The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature (2012) (31)
Magical realism and the African novel (2009) (30)
“Still It Makes Me Laugh, No Time to Die”: A Response (2016) (27)
Obverse Denominations: Africa? (2002) (26)
Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary (2013) (25)
Postcolonialism and Postmodernism (2007) (25)
The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Question of (Literary) History (2012) (24)
Labour migration, human trafficking and multinational corporations : the commodification of illicit flows (2012) (20)
Anatomizing a Postcolonial Tragedy: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogonis (1996) (20)
The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging (review) (2008) (19)
Indigenous writing in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (2012) (18)
Introduction – Diaspora and Transnationalism (2013) (18)
Symbolisation Compulsions: Freud, African Literature and South Africa's Process of Truth and Reconciliation (2001) (17)
Self-Writing and Existential Alienation in African Literature: Achebe’s Arrow of God (2011) (16)
Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life on Oxford St., Accra (2010) (14)
Protocols of Representation and the Problems of Constituting an African 'Gnosis': Achebe and Okri (1997) (13)
Periods versus Concepts: Space Making and the Question of Postcolonial Literary History (2012) (13)
Breaches in the Commonplace (2001) (12)
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel (2015) (11)
Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman in Comparative Frameworks (2015) (10)
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature: The 1980s (2015) (10)
Kòbòlò Poetics: Urban Transcripts and their Reading Publics in Africa (2010) (10)
Autism, Narrative, and Emotions: On Samuel Beckett's Murphy (2010) (10)
Introduction: postcolonial literature in a changing historical frame (2012) (9)
Introduction: Jewish Studies and Postcolonialism (2015) (9)
Means and Meanings: Methodological Issues in Africanist Interdisciplinary Research (1998) (7)
Symbolization Compulsion: Testing a Psychoanalytical Category on Postcolonial African Literature (2004) (7)
Editorial: New Topographies (2014) (6)
The Predicaments of Postcolonial Thinking (2016) (5)
Social imaginaries: The culture hero as conjunctural concept in Africa (2001) (5)
Comparative Postcolonialisms: Storytelling and Community in Sholem Aleichem and Chinua Achebe (2015) (5)
Modern African literary history: nation-and-narration, orality, and diaspora (2019) (5)
Introduction: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Critical Pedagogies (2007) (4)
Modernism and Postmodernism in African literature (2000) (4)
Incessant Particularities: Calibrations as Close Reading (2005) (4)
Introduction: Changing Contexts of the Postcolonial Novel (2015) (4)
Linguistics and postcolonial literature: Englishes in the classroom (2002) (3)
The Postcolonial Novel and Diaspora (2015) (3)
Wole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious* (1996) (3)
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (2021) (2)
Home-Making in the Diaspora:: Bringing Palestine to London (2013) (2)
Africa and its Diasporas (2013) (2)
THE ENCHANTMENT OF A FALSE FREEDOM (2005) (2)
Automobility in the social imaginary (2018) (2)
The Gleam and the Darkness: Representations of the City in the Postcolonial Novel (2015) (2)
Breaches in the commonplace: Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony (2002) (2)
HARVESTING THE FOLKLORIC INTUITION: Ben Okri’sThe Famished Road (2000) (1)
Francis Abiola Irele: his exemplarity, our critical ancestor (2020) (1)
The language question in India and Africa (2012) (1)
On Postcolonial Suffering: George Floyd and the Scene of Contamination (2021) (1)
Of Zulu and alienation: reflections on language learning in South Africa and in African studies (2017) (1)
Conjunction, Preposition, Supplement, and Trace in Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2014) (1)
Postcolonialism and postcolonial writing in Latin America (2012) (1)
Ga Akutso Formation and the Question of Hybridity: The Afro-Brazilians (Tabon) of Accra (2014) (1)
Introduction: Jewish Studies and Postcolonialism—ERRATUM (2016) (1)
The Postcolonial Novel in the Wake of 1989 (2015) (1)
The ethnography of nostalgia (2005) (1)
Chronology of Political and Literary Events (2016) (0)
Tragedy and the Postcolonial Novel (2015) (0)
Introduction: Postcolonial Spatialities (2020) (0)
ReTAGS Speaker Series | Act 1 | Prof. Ato Quayson (2021) (0)
The Postcolonial Crime Novel (2015) (0)
A portrait of Oxford Street, Accra’s most globalised high street – part 1 (2012) (0)
On Moral Residue and the Affliction of Second Thoughts (2021) (0)
The Lettered City: Literary Representations of Accra (2014) (0)
On Worlding Tragedy (2018) (0)
Wole Soyinka (review) (2005) (0)
NAIROBI'S LITTLE MOGADISHU (2019) (0)
Reading World Literature through the Postcolonial and Diasporic Lens (2021) (0)
Review: Race as Placeholder for Difference Ania Loomba Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2004) (0)
Books Received (2007) (0)
Disentangling the laws (2015) (0)
The Spatial Fix: Colonial Administration, Disaster Management, and Land-Use Distribution in Early Twentieth-Century Accra (2014) (0)
Caribbean configurations: Characterological types and the frames of hybridity (1999) (0)
Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary (2012) (0)
Osu borla no, sardine chensii soo: Danes, Euro-Africans, and the Transculturation of Osu (2014) (0)
“The Beautyful Ones”: Tro-tro Slogans, Cell Phone Advertising, and the Hallelujah Chorus (2014) (0)
“I No Be like You”: Accra in Life and Literature (2007) (0)
AFTER BEING EXILED FROM NAZI GERMANY AND COMPLETING THE EX- TRAORDINARY MIMESIS IN ISTANBUL IN 1946, ERICH AUERBACH WROTE (2012) (0)
Space, Time and Magical Realism (2020) (0)
BOOK REVIEW:Biodun Jeyifo. WOLE SOYINKA. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. (2005) (0)
Popular culture and postcolonial literary production in Africa and India (2012) (0)
Archetypes, Self-Authorship, and Melancholia (2021) (0)
“Este loco, loco”: Transnationalism and the Shaping of Accra’s Salsa Scene (2014) (0)
Philip Quaque's letters to London, 1765–1811/Arts of being Yorùbá: divination, allegory, tragedy, proverb, panegyric (2019) (0)
History and the Conscription to Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels (2021) (0)
Fathers & daughters : an anthology of exploration (2008) (0)
Ethical Cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare’sOthello (2021) (0)
City of Youth and Mellow Elusiveness (2018) (0)
Editorial: African American literature and a multicultural pedagogy (1998) (0)
Lecture Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary (2013) (0)
Ghana Studies Since the 1960s (2018) (0)
COMPARATIVE STUDIES (2005) (0)
Redrawing the map : two African journeys (1994) (0)
Distressed Embodiment and the Burdens of Boredom (2021) (0)
Ritual Dramaturgy and the Social Imaginary in Wole Soyinka’s Tragic Theatre (2021) (0)
Enigmatic Variations, Language Games, and the Arrested Bildungsroman (2021) (0)
Editorial note: Forum on the Anthropocene (2014) (0)
Incessant Particularities:Calibrationsas Close Reading (2005) (0)
Stories and Empathy in a Time of Crisis: An African Viewpoint (2022) (0)
The Matrix Reloading: On African Bus Stations (2019) (0)
Pumping Irony: Gymming, the Kòbòlò, and the Cultural Economy of Free Time (2014) (0)
Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley: A Descriptive Handbook (2006) (0)
Form, Freedom, and Ethical Choice in Toni Morrison’sBeloved (2021) (0)

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