[PDF] Some Kind Of Tomorrow Postcolonial Narrative And The Work Of Mourning eBook

Author : Sam Durrant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791485757

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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.

Author : Sam Durrant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791459461

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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.

Author : Nouri Gana
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1611480345

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By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction, Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004487816

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This volume celebrates Wilson Harris’s eightieth birthday and more than fifty years of creative writing. The most original and profound writer of the Caribbean, he has revolutionized the art of fiction and its language. He has himself contributed to this volume, and several Caribbean writers of a younger generation – Cyril Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Andrew Jefferson-Miles, Mark McWatt, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott – pay tribute here to his genius. The essays are by critics from the Caribbean, Britain, the United States and continental Europe who have long admired and explored his work. They cover the various genres of Harris’s writing, his poetry, fiction and criticism, and deal with major aspects of his work, bringing out its relevance to the contemporary context of violence in the world, its modernity, and its contribution to the renewal of the humanities.

Author : Mireille Rosello
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846312213

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The authors studied in this volume represent a Francophone archipelago unfamiliar to any mapmaker, but drawn together through their use of narrators who are survivors and, sometimes, inflictors, of unspeakable acts of violence. These authors, then, Mireille D. Rosello argues, repair trauma through the act of writing. The reparative narratives introduced here require that readers be prepared to accept that healing belongs to a whole realm of potential outcomes—and that exposure and denunciation do not exhaust the victim’s range of possibilities. Rosello contends that this context-specific, yet repeating, pattern constitutes a response to our contemporary understanding of both globalized and extremely localized types of traumatic memories.

Author : Mireille Rosello
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bereavement in literature
ISBN : 9781846315916

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The authors studied in this book are drawn together through their use of narrators who are survivors and, sometimes, inflictors, of unspeakable acts of violence. These authors then repair trauma through the act of writing. The reparative narratives introduced here require that readers be prepared to accept that healing belongs to a whole realm of potential outcomes - and that exposure and denunciation do not exhaust the victim's range of possibilities. The author contends that this context-specific, yet repeating, pattern constitutes a response to our contemporary understanding of both globalized and extremely localized types of traumatic memories.