Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032241180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

David Attwell; Annalisa Pes; Susanna Zinato

Opis

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.).