LEADER 03805nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910816816803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93647-6 010 $a9786612936470 010 $a1-4008-3649-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836499 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059885 035 $a(EBL)664516 035 $a(OCoLC)694547798 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11332401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10573562 035 $a(PQKB)11242686 035 $a(OCoLC)825768028 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36787 035 $a(DE-B1597)446923 035 $a(OCoLC)979577403 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL664516 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435983 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293647 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC664516 035 $a(PPN)187273332 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059885 100 $a20100330d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe event of postcolonial shame /$fTimothy Bewes 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 225 1 $aTranslation/transnation 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-14165-7 311 0 $a0-691-14166-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tPart One. The Form of Shame --$tPart Two. The Time of Shame --$tPart Three. The Event of Shame --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aIn a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it. 410 0$aTranslation/transnation. 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 676 $a820.9/3581 686 $a17.76$2bcl 700 $aBewes$b Timothy$01610175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816816803321 996 $aThe event of postcolonial shame$93978242 997 $aUNINA