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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature

David Attwell Annalisa Pes Susanna Zinato

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English
Routledge
14 May 2019
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame’s destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   610g
ISBN:   9780367193102
ISBN 10:   0367193108
Series:   Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Pages:   232
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
"List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shame, Literature and the Postcolonial Chapter one - Writing in, of and around Shame: J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell Chapter two - Cursing the Fathers’ Curse: A Tragic Reading of White Shame in J.M. Coetzee’s In The Heart of the Country and Age of Iron Susanna Zinato Chapter three - Dictator Games: On Shame, Shitholes, and Beautiful Things Rita Barnard Chapter four - ""Unfinished Business"": Digging up the past in Christine Piper’s After Darkness and Cory Taylor’s My Beautiful Enemy Sue Kossew Chapter five - Different Shades of Shame. The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction Annalisa Pes Chapter six - Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A. S. Patric’s Black Rock, White City (2015) Dolores Herrero Chapter seven - American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction and Timothy Bewes David Callahan Chapter eight - ""Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades"": Individual and Historical Shame in Walcott’s Earlier Poetry Angelo Righetti Chapter nine - Shame, Justice and the Representation of Violence in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Caryl Phillips Vincent van Bever Donker Chapter ten - Afterword: ""A Swarm of Locusts Passed By"" Timothy Bewes Index"

David Attwell is Professor of English at the University of York in the UK and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He co-edited and conducted the interviews for J.M. Coetzee’s Doubling the Point Essays and Interviews. His monographs include J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing; Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History; and most recently, J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing. Annalisa Pes is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Verona. Besides articles and book chapters, her publications include: Ex-centric Writing. Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction (co-ed.), Sermoni, amori e misteri. Il racconto coloniale australiano al femminile, and Stories that Keep on Rising to the Surface. I racconti di Patrick White. Susanna Zinato is Associate Professor of English at the University of Verona. Besides articles and book chapters, her publications include: The house is empty: Grammars of Madness in J. Frame’s Scented Gardens for the Blind and B. Head’s A Question of Power; Rehearsals of the Modern: Experience and Experiment in Restoration Drama (ed.); Ex-centric Writing: Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction (co-ed.).

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