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  1. Imagining justice
    the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can... more

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    Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780773576322; 0773576320; 128286677X; 9781282866775
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 233 pages)
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    Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index

  2. Imagining justice
    the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 077353458X; 0773576320; 9780773534582; 9780773576322
    Subjects: 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; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Postkolonialismus; Versöhnung; Literatur; Geschichte; Commonwealth literature (English); Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature; Forgiveness in literature; Reconciliation in literature; Literature and society; Literature and society; Literatur; Versöhnung; Postkolonialismus; Englisch
    Other subjects: Coetzee, J. M. / 1940-; Kogawa, Joy; Malouf, David / 1934-; Ondaatje, Michael / 1943-; Malouf, David / 1934- / Remembering Babylon; Ondaatje, Michael / 1943- / Anil's ghost; Kogawa, Joy / Obasan; Kogawa, Joy / Itsuka; Coetzee, J. M. / 1940- / Disgrace
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 233 pages)
    Notes:

    Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index

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

  3. Imagining justice
    the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation
    Published: (c)2009
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal

    Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can... more

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    Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation Introduction: Writing wrongs : postcolonial literature and the (im)possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation -- Horizons of justice : notes toward a theory of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation -- Unsettling the settler postcolony : uncanny pre-occupations in David Malouf's Remembering babylon -- Vigils amid violence : mourning the dead and the disappeared in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- The future of racial memory : redressing the past in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka -- The agonistics of absolution : responsibility and the right of grace in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780773576322; 0773576320
    Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English); Postcolonialism; Literature and society; Literature and society; Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise); Postcolonialisme; Postcolonialisme dans la littérature; Pardon dans la littérature; Réconciliation dans la littérature; Littérature et société; Littérature et société; Forgiveness in literature; Reconciliation in literature; Literature and society; Literature and society; Commonwealth literature (English); Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature; Forgiveness in literature; Reconciliation in literature; Postcolonialism; Literature and society; Literature and society; Commonwealth literature (English); LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Literature; Reconciliation; Forgiveness; Commonwealth literature (English); Forgiveness in literature; Literature and society; Postcolonialism; Postcolonialism in literature; Reconciliation in literature; Postkolonialismus; Versöhnung; Literatur; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Other subjects: Malouf, David 1934-; Ondaatje, Michael 1943-; Kogawa, Joy; Kogawa, Joy; Coetzee, J. M. 1940-; Coetzee, J. M. 1940-; Kogawa, Joy; Malouf, David 1934-; Ondaatje, Michael 1943-
    Scope: Online Ressource (xiv, 233 pages)
    Notes:

    Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index. - Description based on print version record

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index

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