03899nam 2200781Ia 450 991079159580332120231206221924.00-7735-8329-71-282-86677-X97866128667770-7735-7632-010.1515/9780773576322(CKB)2560000000048784(OCoLC)741350276(OCoLC)689523753(OCoLC)759101566(OCoLC)759157099(OCoLC)760072896(OCoLC)816611103(OCoLC)923235359(OCoLC)961506907(OCoLC)962615451(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424217(SSID)ssj0000438010(PQKBManifestationID)11308255(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438010(PQKBWorkID)10449543(PQKB)10054128(CEL)432895(CaBNvSL)slc00225556(Au-PeEL)EBL3332153(CaPaEBR)ebr10559104(CaONFJC)MIL286677(OCoLC)923235359(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dvrx50(MiAaPQ)EBC3332153(DE-B1597)656863(DE-B1597)9780773576322(MiAaPQ)EBC3271255(EXLCZ)99256000000004878420091003d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagining justice[electronic resource] the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation /Julie McGonegalMontreal ;Ithaca :McGill-Queen's University Press,c2009.1 online resource (248 pages)0-7735-3458-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticismForgiveness in literatureLiterature and societyCommonwealth countriesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyCommonwealth countriesHistory21st centuryPostcolonialism in literaturePostcolonialismCommonwealth countriesReconciliation in literatureCommonwealth literature (English)History and criticism.Forgiveness in literature.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryPostcolonialism in literature.PostcolonialismReconciliation in literature.820.9/353McGonegal Julie1976-1551868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791595803321Imagining justice3811559UNINA