Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
by
Sam Durrant
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0791459454
ISBN-13
9780791459454
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2003
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
354 grams
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Compares the ways in which the novels of J.M.Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era.
Sam Durrant''s powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era. The works examined bear witness to the colonization of the New World, U.S. slavery, and South African apartheid, histories founded on a violent denial of the humanity of the other that had traumatic consequences for both perpetrators and victims. Working at the borders of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and drawing inspiration from recent work on the Holocaust, Durrant rethinks Freud''s opposition between mourning and melancholia at the level of the collective and rearticulates the postcolonial project as an inconsolable labor of remembrance.
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