The Resource The event of postcolonial shame, Timothy Bewes
The event of postcolonial shame, Timothy Bewes
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- Summary
- "In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V.S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it."--Publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
- Contents
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- Shame as form
- Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliché : Caryl Phillips
- The shame of belatedness : late style in V.S. Naipaul
- Shame and revolutionary betrayal : Joseph Conrad, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb
- The event of shame in J.M. Coetzee
- Shame and subtraction : towards postcolonial writing
- Isbn
- 9781400836499
- Label
- The event of postcolonial shame
- Title
- The event of postcolonial shame
- Statement of responsibility
- Timothy Bewes
- Subject
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- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postkolonialisme
- Bellettrie
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V.S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it."--Publisher
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- Bewes, Timothy
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
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- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Postcolonialism in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postkolonialisme
- Bellettrie
- Label
- The event of postcolonial shame, Timothy Bewes
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index
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- online resource
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- multicolored
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Shame as form -- Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliché : Caryl Phillips -- The shame of belatedness : late style in V.S. Naipaul -- Shame and revolutionary betrayal : Joseph Conrad, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb -- The event of shame in J.M. Coetzee -- Shame and subtraction : towards postcolonial writing
- Control code
- ocn825768028
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400836499
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- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
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- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttx77s
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)825768028
- Label
- The event of postcolonial shame, Timothy Bewes
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Shame as form -- Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliché : Caryl Phillips -- The shame of belatedness : late style in V.S. Naipaul -- Shame and revolutionary betrayal : Joseph Conrad, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb -- The event of shame in J.M. Coetzee -- Shame and subtraction : towards postcolonial writing
- Control code
- ocn825768028
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400836499
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttx77s
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)825768028
Subject
- Commonwealth literature (English)
- Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postkolonialisme
- Bellettrie
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