Return to the Scene of the Crime

ISBN-13: 9781032633787 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Kamil Naicker

Opis

This book illustrates how five authors defy generic expectations to illustrate the complexities of personal identity, transitional justice, and civil violence in the post-colonial world.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 A Case of Arrested Development: Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans

2 Investigating the Pathologist: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

3 Death of an Idea: Francisco Goldman’s The Long Night of White Chickens

4 A Foreign Country: Gillian Slovo’s Red Dust

5 Hijacked Narrative: Nuruddin Farah’s Crossbones

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Kamil Naicker is lecturer in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape. She holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and an MA from the University of Leeds. Return to the Scene of the Crime is her debut.