Six authors in search of justice : engaging with political transitions / Michael Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Michael, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Literature, Justice and Transition 1

The six authors 2

Literature and the political sphere 8

Concepts of injustice, justice and transition 13

2 Victor Serge, the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinism 35

Life, politics and literature 36

Revolution and justice: hopes and realities 43

Serge's reflections on the Soviet experience 53

Wider lessons? 57

3 From The Vichy Regime to the Fourth French Republic: Albert Camus and Resistance, Justice and Violence 59

From non-violence to resistance, 1940-44 63

Liberation and L'Épuration 71

Justice, violence and politics 78

4 Justice in the Context of Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Kenya 87

Colonial Kenya 88

Transition 96

Neo-colonialism 101

Dreams of a world without prisons and gunpoints 111

5 Jorge Semprún and the Transition in Spain: Justice, Amnesia and Memory 119

Life and 'autofiction' 122

From civil war to transition 127

The transition, the amnesty and the 'Pact of Forgetfulness' 138

Semprún, historical memory and justice 146

6 Allende, Pinochet and the Transition to Democracy: Ariel Dorfman and Chile 149

The constant exile: identity, politics and writing 150

Transition: hopes, anger, disappointment ... and progress 164

7 Nadine Gordimer: Apartheid and After 181

The apartheid state 185

Transition and the new state 198

The moral outrage of a sceptic 209

8 Multidimensional Justice 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.

ISBN:

019049574X

9780190495749

OCLC:

921864705