| Description |
ix, 142 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Specters of Colonialism -- Ch. 1. Speechless before Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning -- Ch. 2. Rites of Communion: Wilson Harris's Hosting of History -- Ch. 3. Keeping It in the Family: Passing on Racial Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison -- Conclusion: Some Kind of Community |
| Summary |
"Sam Durrant's book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era. The works examined bear witness to the colonialization of the New World, U.S. slavery, and South African apartheid, histories founded on a violent denial of the humanity of the other that had traumatic consequences for both perpetrators and victims. Working at the borders of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and drawing inspiration from recent work on the Holocaust, Durrant rethinks Freud's opposition between mourning and melancholia at the level of the collective and rearticulates the postcolonial project and an inconsolable labor of remembrance."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Ontario |
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Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Ontario |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Harris, Wilson, 1921- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Morrison, Toni, 1931- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Postcolonialism -- English-speaking countries.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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African Americans in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Apartheid in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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Blacks in literature.
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Grief in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Guiana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057709 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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South Africa -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117004
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Guyana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061018 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| LC no. |
2003045657 |
| ISBN |
0791459454 alkaline paper |
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0791459462 paperback alkaline paper |
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