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Subject(s)

• Commonwealth literature (English)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Postcolonialism in literature [Browse]
• Shame in literature [Browse]
• Literature and morals [Browse]
• Postcolonialism—Commonwealth countries [Browse]
• Commonwealth countries—In literature [Browse]

Editor

• Attwell, David [Browse]
• Pes, Annalisa [Browse]
• Zinato, Susanna [Browse]

Series

• Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 69. [More in this series]
• Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; [More in this series]

Summary note

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780367193102 ((hardback))
• 0367193108 ((hardback))

LCCN

2019004025

OCLC

1083579685

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