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...
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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, a
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part One: The Form of Shame; Chapter One : Shame as Form; Chapter Two: Shame, Ventriloquy, and the Problem of the Cliché : Caryl Phillips; Part Two: The Time of Shame; Chapter Three: The Shame of Belatedness: Late Style in V. S. Naipaul; Chapter Four: Shame and Revolutionary Betrayal: Joseph Conrad, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb; Part Three: The Event of Shame; Chapter Five: The Event of Shame in J. M. Coetzee; Chapter Six: Shame and Subtraction: Towards Postcolonial Writing; Notes; Index
