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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791595803321

Autore

McGonegal Julie <1976->

Titolo

Imagining justice [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / / Julie McGonegal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , c2009

ISBN

0-7735-8329-7

1-282-86677-X

9786612866777

0-7735-7632-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Forgiveness in literature

Literature and society - Commonwealth countries - History - 20th century

Literature and society - Commonwealth countries - History - 21st century

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries

Reconciliation in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on critical and theoretical material by thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Mahatma Gandhi, 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.