Imagining justice : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation /

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Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGonegal, Julie, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940-
Kogawa, Joy.
Malouf, David, > 1934-
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943-
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943- > Anil's ghost.
Malouf, David, > 1934- > Remembering Babylon.
Kogawa, Joy > Obasan.
Kogawa, Joy. > Itsuka.
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940- > Disgrace.
Commonwealth
1900-2099
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Forgiveness in literature.
Reconciliation in literature.
Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 21st century.
Réconciliation dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Pays du Commonwealth > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et société > Pays du Commonwealth > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Pardon dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme > Pays du Commonwealth.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature
Reconciliation
Forgiveness
Commonwealth literature (English)
Forgiveness in literature
Literature and society
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature
Reconciliation in literature
Postkolonialismus
Versöhnung
Literatur
Commonwealth countries
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic resource.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Writing wrongs : postcolonial literature and the (im)possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation
  • Horizons of justice : notes toward a theory of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation
  • Unsettling the settler postcolony : uncanny pre-occupations in David Malouf's Remembering babylon
  • Vigils amid violence : mourning the dead and the disappeared in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost
  • The future of racial memory : redressing the past in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka
  • The agonistics of absolution : responsibility and the right of grace in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

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