Imagining justice : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / Julie McGonegal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGonegal, Julie, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Forgiveness in literature.

Literature and society--Commonwealth countries--History--20th century.

Literature and society--Commonwealth countries--History--21st century.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Reconciliation in literature.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Disgrace.

Kogawa, Joy. Itsuka.

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan.

Malouf, David, 1934- Remembering Babylon.

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- Anil's ghost.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on critical and theoretical material by thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Mahatma Gandhi, and Julia Kristeva, Julie McGonegal supplements indigenous models and approaches with those produced within Euro American discourse. In the process, she develops an understanding of forgiveness and reconciliation based on the interventive power of literature. Through insightful readings of four novels, McGonegal demonstrates the ways in which literature can create the conditions that make processes of postcolonial reconciliation possible.

Contents:

Introduction: Writing wrongs : postcolonial literature and the (im)possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation

Horizons of justice : notes toward a theory of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation

Unsettling the settler postcolony : uncanny pre-occupations in David Malouf's Remembering babylon

Vigils amid violence : mourning the dead and the disappeared in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost

The future of racial memory : redressing the past in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka

The agonistics of absolution : responsibility and the right of grace in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612866777

9780773583290

0773583297

9781282866775

128286677X

9780773576322

0773576320

OCLC:

741350276