Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2019
Editors:	David Attwell • Annalisa Pes • Susanna Zinato
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-224118-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-03-224118-7
Barcode:	9781032241180

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