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The event of postcolonial shame /

"In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bewes, Timothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Translation/transnation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shame as form
  • Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliché : Caryl Phillips
  • The shame of belatedness : late style in V.S. Naipaul
  • Shame and revolutionary betrayal : Joseph Conrad, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb
  • The event of shame in J.M. Coetzee
  • Shame and subtraction : towards postcolonial writing.