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Autore: | Durrant Sam <1970-> |
Titolo: | Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / / Sam Durrant |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.5409358 |
Soggetto topico: | Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
African Americans in literature | |
Postcolonialism in literature | |
Apartheid in literature | |
Slavery in literature | |
Blacks in literature | |
Grief in literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Africa In literature |
Guyana In literature | |
Note generali: | Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Ontario. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning -- 2. Rites of Communion: Wilson Harris's Hosting of History -- 3. Keeping It in the Family: Passing on Racial Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison -- CONCLUSION: Some Kind of Community -- Notes -- Introduction. Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid -- 2. Rites of Communion -- 3. Keeping It in the Family -- Conclusion. Some Kind of Community -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning |
ISBN: | 0-7914-8575-7 |
1-4237-3932-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807691203321 |
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