Ato Quayson is one of the foremost literary scholars and critics of our times. His latest – characteristically ambitious and wide-ranging – volume offers an innovative way of thinking about interdisciplinarity. The book revisits fields where its author's work has been most influential: tragedy, space and spatial theory, and literary studies. It advances bold interpretations of the confluences and overlapping concepts at the heart of several areas of study, including – among others – African and Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, Urban Studies, History, and Anthropology. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the ways in which the humanities help to generate fresh insights. Exploring the concept of interdisciplinarity in a cumulative, incremental fashion, the book leads its readers through a process of discovery about the methodological and conceptual borrowings between various disciplines. It will surprise and delight anyone who is engaged by the roles and status of literary studies today.
