Drawing on critical and theoretical material by thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Mahatma Ghandi, 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.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index
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- 22
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- 9780773576322 9780773534582
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- M29 2009eb
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction Writing Wrongs: Postcolonial Literature and the (Im)possibility of Forgiveness and Reconciliation 18
- 1 Horizons of Justice: Notes toward a Theory of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation 39
- 2 Unsettling the Settler Postcolony: Uncanny Pre-Occupations in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon 74
- 3 Vigils amid Violence: Mourning the Dead and the Disappeared in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 101
- 4 The Future of Racial Memory: Redressing the Past in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Itsuka 126
- 5 The Agonistics of Absolution: Responsibility and the Right of Grace in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 162
- Conclusion 194
- Epilogue 201
- Notes 206
- Bibliography 230
- Index 244
- A 244
- B 244
- C 244
- D 245
- E 245
- F 245
- G 245
- H 245
- I 246
- J 246
- K 246
- L 246
- M 246
- N 246
- O 246
- P 246
- R 247
- S 247
- T 247
- U 248
- W 248
- Y 248
- Z 248
