Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

By: David Attwell and Annalisa Pes and Susanna Zinato

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 232 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780429510328
Related ISBNs:: 9780429201653, 9780367193102, 9780367193102
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/24/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: David Attwell
Edited by:: Annalisa Pes
Edited by:: Susanna Zinato