Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison

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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Main Author: Durrant, Sam, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2004
Series:SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
Subjects:
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940- > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Harris, Wilson > Criticism and interpretation.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Apartheid in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Black people in literature.
Grief in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
South Africa > In literature.
Guyana > In literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Specters of colonialism
  • Speechless before Apartheid: J.M. Coetzee's inconsolable works of mourning
  • Rites of communion: Wilson Harris's hosting of history
  • Keeping it in the family: passing on racial memory in the novels of Toni Morrison
  • Some kind of community.

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