Poetics and politics of shame in postcolonial literature. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Atwell, Annalisa Pes, and Susanna Zinato.
• Editors: Attwell, David; Pes, Annalisa; Zinato, Susanna
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Shame, Literature, and the Postcolonial; 1 Writing in, of, and around Shame: J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K; 2 Cursing the Fathers' Curse: A Tragic Reading of White Shame in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country and Age of Iron; 3 Dictator Games: On Shame, Shitholes, and Beautiful Things; 4 "Unfinished Business": Digging up the Past in Christine Piper's After Darkness and Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy 5 Different Shades of Shame. The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction6 Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A.S. Patric's Black Rock, White City (2015); 7 American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction, and Timothy Bewes; 8 "Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades": Individual and Historical Shame in Walcott's Earlier Poetry; 9 Shame, Justice, and the Representation of Violence in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Caryl Phillips; 10 Afterword: A Swarm of Locusts Passed By; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9/353; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Shame in literature; Literature and morals; Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Commonwealth countries -- In literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429201653; 0429201656; 9780429513756; 0429513755; 9780429510328; 0429510322; 9780429517181; 0429517181
• Related ISBNs: 9780367193102; 0367193108
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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