Imagining justice
Subtitle: the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation
By: Julie McGonegal.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780773534582
Subjects: Malouf, David, -- 1934-; Ondaatje, Michael, -- 1943- ; Kogawa, Joy; Kogawa, Joy; Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940-; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries; Postcolonialism in literature; Forgiveness in literature; Reconciliation in literature; Literature and society -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 21st century; Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) -- Histoire et critique; Postcolonialisme -- Pays du Commonwealth; Postcolonialisme dans la littérature; Pardon dans la littérature; Réconciliation dans la littérature; Littérature et société -- Pays du Commonwealth -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Littérature et société -- Pays du Commonwealth -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
Notes: Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Writing wrongs : postcolonial literature and the (im)possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation; title: Horizons of justice : notes toward a theory of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation; title: Unsettling the settler postcolony : uncanny pre-occupations in David Malouf's Remembering babylon; title: Vigils amid violence : mourning the dead and the disappeared in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost; title: The future of racial memory : redressing the past in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka; title: The agonistics of absolution : responsibility and the right of grace in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.