Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison /
"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. sl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2004
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| Series: | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Ontario. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423739329 9781423739326 0791459454 9780791459454 0791459462 9780791459461 9780791485750 0791485757 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
