Critic.Reading.Writing with ATO QUAYSON

Critic.Reading.Writing with ATO QUAYSON

My name is Ato Quayson and I am a Professor of English and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. Here are my reflections on the relevance of the humanities at the present time. Even though I shall be delving from time to time into art, film, history, philosophy, etc, my main focus will mainly be on literature. I propose to share with you many ideas deriving from how we read literature. I am a comparatist at heart and much of what I will talk about, even if starting from the perspective of a particular text, will wade far and wide to bring in examples from other traditions of writing. I have three main areas of interest: Literature, Cities, and Fashion and you will find me threading these into many of the episodes I will be sharing with you every week. They will cover various themes, including: Tragedy in World Literature; the City in Literature; Literature and Ethical Judgment, and Diaspora and Literature, among various others.

Disney’s Finding Nemo: Dory’s Short-Term Amnesia and the Enactment of Erasure

18:49

Disney’s Finding Nemo: Dory’s Short-Term Amnesia and the Enactment of Erasure

16 сағат бұрын

A Brief Typology of Disability Representations (1)

26:15

A Brief Typology of Disability Representations (1)

14 күн бұрын

Disability and Literature: Introduction

25:18

Disability and Literature: Introduction

21 күн бұрын

JUNOT DÍAZ'S The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Magical Realism and the Tragic Intertext

21:43

JUNOT DÍAZ'S The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Magical Realism and the Tragic Intertext

Ай бұрын

PEPETELA'S The Return of the Water Spirit: Magical Realism as Mystery Thriller

23:24

PEPETELA'S The Return of the Water Spirit: Magical Realism as Mystery Thriller

Ай бұрын

BEN OKRI'S The Famished Road: Leakages and Transpositions

23:21

BEN OKRI'S The Famished Road: Leakages and Transpositions

Ай бұрын

ROBERT KROETSCH'S, What the Crow Said: Ontological Juxtapositions and Proliferations

22:13

ROBERT KROETSCH'S, What the Crow Said: Ontological Juxtapositions and Proliferations

2 ай бұрын

LAUREN BUEKES' Zoo City: Animals, Muti, and Transformation

11:43

LAUREN BUEKES' Zoo City: Animals, Muti, and Transformation

2 ай бұрын

Theoretical Interregnum: Chronotopes, Indexicality, and Iconicity in Magical Realism

18:15

Theoretical Interregnum: Chronotopes, Indexicality, and Iconicity in Magical Realism

2 ай бұрын

SALMAN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN: OF FORGETTING AND RE-MEMBERING

22:05

SALMAN RUSHDIE'S MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN: OF FORGETTING AND RE-MEMBERING

2 ай бұрын

ISABEL ALLENDE'S THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS: MAGICAL REALISM AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

23:48

ISABEL ALLENDE'S THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS: MAGICAL REALISM AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

2 ай бұрын

GABRÍEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S One Hundred Years of Solitude: Devices and Themes

23:19

GABRÍEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S One Hundred Years of Solitude: Devices and Themes

3 ай бұрын

Magical Realism and History in GABRÍEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S One Hundred Years of Solitude

21:02

Magical Realism and History in GABRÍEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S One Hundred Years of Solitude

3 ай бұрын

AMOS TUTUOLA's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Inter-Species Ontologies

21:03

AMOS TUTUOLA's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Inter-Species Ontologies

3 ай бұрын

What is MAGICAL REALISM?

15:18

What is MAGICAL REALISM?

3 ай бұрын

Announcing Magical Realism

3:21

Announcing Magical Realism

3 жыл бұрын

REVIEW of URBAN STUDIES and SPATIAL THEORY

37:21

REVIEW of URBAN STUDIES and SPATIAL THEORY

3 жыл бұрын

TONI MORRISON, Jazz: Harlem, Jazz, and Narrative Counterpoints

35:19

TONI MORRISON, Jazz: Harlem, Jazz, and Narrative Counterpoints

3 жыл бұрын

JAMES BALDWIN, “Sonny’s Blues”: Rapture and the Ambient Menace

35:58

JAMES BALDWIN, “Sonny’s Blues”: Rapture and the Ambient Menace

3 жыл бұрын

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, Midaq Alley: Space and Historical Constriction

38:14

NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, Midaq Alley: Space and Historical Constriction

3 жыл бұрын

BLACK PANTHER and the Question of Black Atlantic Melancholy

36:34

BLACK PANTHER and the Question of Black Atlantic Melancholy

3 жыл бұрын

A REVIEW of POSTCOLONIALISM

36:35

A REVIEW of POSTCOLONIALISM

3 жыл бұрын

DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE MATRIX: The Geometries of Space and Time

36:46

DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE MATRIX: The Geometries of Space and Time

3 жыл бұрын

FISTON MWANZA MUJILA, TRAM 83: Jazz Variations and Postcolonial Critique

30:00

FISTON MWANZA MUJILA, TRAM 83: Jazz Variations and Postcolonial Critique

3 жыл бұрын

THE RAILWAY STATION CHRONOTOPE in the Bourne Ultimatum

36:30

THE RAILWAY STATION CHRONOTOPE in the Bourne Ultimatum

3 жыл бұрын

WALTER MOSLEY’s Devil in a Blue Dress: Race, Noir, and Social Critique

33:24

WALTER MOSLEY’s Devil in a Blue Dress: Race, Noir, and Social Critique

3 жыл бұрын

THE SIGN OF FOUR: A Postcolonial Reading of Sherlock Holmes

39:15

THE SIGN OF FOUR: A Postcolonial Reading of Sherlock Holmes

3 жыл бұрын

SPATIAL ANALYSIS: The Airport as Chronotope

32:26

SPATIAL ANALYSIS: The Airport as Chronotope

3 жыл бұрын

The AFRO-BRAZILIANS of ACCRA, 1836-Present Times

40:41

The AFRO-BRAZILIANS of ACCRA, 1836-Present Times

4 жыл бұрын

Пікірлер

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 19 сағат бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@solomonagyemangprempeh6268

@solomonagyemangprempeh6268 6 күн бұрын

🔥Great session Prof

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 6 күн бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Күн бұрын

You are very welcome

@NijumoniDoley-k7b

@NijumoniDoley-k7b 9 күн бұрын

Nice Sir

@beverlyrobs4055

@beverlyrobs4055 13 күн бұрын

Frantz Fanon name alone allows me to expolore the concept and understand his era as a great contribution to understand blackness and whiteness

@AgnesCobbinah-b6x

@AgnesCobbinah-b6x 14 күн бұрын

You are just good

@blankname5177 14 күн бұрын

I missed that connection to disability in The Bluest Eye. Thank you for bringing it to light.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 14 күн бұрын

I'm glad it was helpful!

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 16 күн бұрын

Wow,this is sensitive.

@7thCobweb 21 күн бұрын

excited for this series! & thank you for talking about this topic

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 19 күн бұрын

You're so welcome!

@writingafrica 29 күн бұрын

Tnank you professor. I enjoy your KZbin videos as I always learn a lot.

@Techpath-z1c Ай бұрын

Hello sir, I hope this message finds you well. I am currently working on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Brick Lane by Monica Ali for my thesis. I have found your analysis highly relevant to some of the ideas I am exploring. With your permission, I would like to reference some of the critiques discussed in your summary. Thank you for your valuable insights. I look forward to hearing from you.

@gautamchandra7388

@gautamchandra7388 Ай бұрын

Thanks prof

@7thCobweb Ай бұрын

thank you so much!

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 Ай бұрын

Thank you prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

You are welcome.

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 Ай бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

Thanks to you too.

@jaspertwesige Ай бұрын

WOOWW, Thank you so much for this summary

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

You are most welcome.

@rounakgupta7441

@rounakgupta7441 Ай бұрын

Wonderful Professor.

@literarygansta

@literarygansta Ай бұрын

Another wonderful episode on one of my favourite books.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

Many thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 Ай бұрын

Thank you prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

You are welcome

@robertcornwell6590

@robertcornwell6590 Ай бұрын

Really excellent.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

Many thanks, Robert.

@thecornerroompodcast1632

@thecornerroompodcast1632 2 ай бұрын

Great session Prof 🔥

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@edmundankomah9007

@edmundankomah9007 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Prof!

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 2 ай бұрын

Thanks to you too, Edmund.

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 2 ай бұрын

Thanks to you too, Emmanuel.

@estarestar929 2 ай бұрын

Good analyze thanks

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@TimeWithMaryBodomo

@TimeWithMaryBodomo 2 ай бұрын

I love that, beautiful ending...Paolo Coelho, boho biem! ...the real difficulty is in choosing well your own madness...😅

@TimeWithMaryBodomo

@TimeWithMaryBodomo 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking some of us gratefully back to the classroom to listen to such powerful pieces😊

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure, Poetic.

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 2 ай бұрын

Thank you prof.

@xolisile34 2 ай бұрын

Informative summary and analysis. Thanks Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 2 ай бұрын

Many thanks to you too.

@History_with_7akim

@History_with_7akim 2 ай бұрын

Could you please make an episode about Coetzee?

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 2 ай бұрын

Thank you prof.

@literarygansta

@literarygansta 2 ай бұрын

Hello Prof, at some point, I think you should consider Gabriel García Márquez's Of Love and Other Demons, too.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 2 ай бұрын

Will do.

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@billyalarie929

@billyalarie929 3 ай бұрын

Holy moly I’m saving this one!

@nanaadwoa 3 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the next episode

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Prof.

@thecornerroompodcast1632

@thecornerroompodcast1632 3 ай бұрын

Always incredible listening to you Prof🔥

@sochiazuh 3 ай бұрын

Tutuola is of great interest to me and his contribution to morality in fantasy literature.

@writingafrica 3 ай бұрын

Lauren Beukes mentioned. Win!

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

There is a forthcoming episode on Buekes in the series.

@KwesiArthur-nb8jq

@KwesiArthur-nb8jq 3 ай бұрын

We still learning from you. Prof

@prometheus200 3 ай бұрын

Don’t take too long doc. This is really brilliant

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Many thanks.

@lennoxhonychurch3733

@lennoxhonychurch3733 3 ай бұрын

Excellent linkage between the two novels and a clear explaination of the imperialist background that is drawn from the Caribbean and which influences Victorian attitudes in England towards the colonised "other".

@annanarthur1990

@annanarthur1990 3 ай бұрын

Welcome back Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@sochiazuh 3 ай бұрын

Welcome back Prof.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@andreaopossumpossum

@andreaopossumpossum 3 ай бұрын

yessss we have missed youuuuu!!! thanks for coming back

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

I have missed you all too!

@literarygansta

@literarygansta 3 ай бұрын

Good to have you back.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@kwamezulushabazz

@kwamezulushabazz 3 ай бұрын

well done, prof. great to see you.

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@rupsabanerjee437

@rupsabanerjee437 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this episode, Prof. Quayson!

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

You are most welcome.

@bb412m 3 ай бұрын

I have been looking forward to this episode! Thank you, Prof Quayson😁

@CriticReadingWriting

@CriticReadingWriting 3 ай бұрын

Many thanks.

@lross9713 5 ай бұрын

So great to hear this reading of the exchange between credulous Berthe (who is slowly realising she has been tricked) and the worldly and pragmatic Christophine. Would recommend anyone to read Jean Rhys's other works - notably the short stories (all of them), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Voyage in the Dark - they are just astonishing.