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UNINA9910791595803321 |
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Autore |
McGonegal Julie <1976-> |
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Titolo |
Imagining justice [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / / Julie McGonegal |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-8329-7 |
1-282-86677-X |
9786612866777 |
0-7735-7632-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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