The Event of Postcolonial Shame /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bewes, Timothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bellettrie.
Postkolonialisme.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Litterature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Shame as form
  • Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliche : 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.

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