04035nam 2200853Ia 450 991097523750332120200520144314.09786612866777978077358329007735832979781282866775128286677X9780773576322077357632010.1515/9780773576322(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(Perlego)3551156(EXLCZ)99256000000004878420091003d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagining justice the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation /Julie McGonegal1st ed.Montreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20091 online resource (248 pages)9780773534582 077353458X 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 Julie1976-1808716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910975237503321Imagining justice4359116UNINA