Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning

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"Sam Durrant's 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 colonialization 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 and an inconsolable labor of remembrance."--Jacket.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  Apartheid in literature,  Blacks in literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  Grief in literature,  History,  In literature,  Narration (Rhetoric),  Postcolonialism in literature,  Slavery in literature,  Afrique du Sud dans la littérature,  Rassenkonflikt,  Critique et interprétation,  Narration,  American,  Postkoloniale Literatur,  Trauma,  Chagrin dans la littérature,  Guyana dans la littérature,  Postcolonialisme dans la littérature,  Esclavage dans la littérature,  Apartheid dans la littérature,  Literature,  Postkolonialismus,  Noirs américains dans la littérature,  Dekonstruktion,  Psychoanalyse,  General,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  Noirs dans la littérature,  Criticism,  Postcolonialism,  Black people in literature,  Criticism and interpretationcoetzee, j. m , 1940-,  Criticism and interpretationmorrison, toni,  Criticism and interpretationharris, wilson,  Narration (rhetoric)--history,  Narration (rhetoric)--history--20th century,  Pr9369.3.c58 z65 2004,  813/.5409358

People: J. M. Coetzee (1940-),  Toni Morrison (1931-2019),  Wilson Harris (1921-2018)

Places: Guyana,  South Africa

Times: 20th century