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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison - Brossura

Durrant, Sam

 
9780791459461: Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
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ISBN 10: 0791459462 ISBN 13: 9780791459461
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2006

Sinossi

Sam Durrant's powerfully original 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 colonization 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 as an inconsolable labor of remembrance.

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Sam Durrant is Lecturer of English at the University of Leeds.

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Editore
State Univ of New York Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0791459462
ISBN 13 
9780791459461
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
142
Contatto del produttore
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