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Imagining justice : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / Julie McGonegal.
- Title
- Imagining justice : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / Julie McGonegal.
- Author
- McGonegal, Julie, 1976-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xiv, 233 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book approaches political demands for reconciliation from the perspective of postcolonial literary criticism and theory, demonstrating that reading can have potentially radical social and political effects.--From book jacket.
- Subject
- Malouf, David, 1934-
- Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
- Kogawa, Joy
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
- Commonwealth
- 1900-2099
- Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Forgiveness in literature
- Reconciliation in literature
- Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century
- Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 21st century
- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique
- Postcolonialisme > Pays du Commonwealth
- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
- Pardon dans la littérature
- Réconciliation dans la littérature
- Littérature et société > Pays du Commonwealth > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Littérature et société > Pays du Commonwealth > Histoire > 21e siècle
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780773534582
- 077353458X
- OCLC
- 242060366
- SCSB-12396398
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library