Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Shame, Literature, and the Postcolonial
1 Writing in, of, and around Shame: J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K
2 Cursing the Fathers’ Curse: A Tragic Reading of White Shame in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country and Age of Iron
3 Dictator Games: On Shame, Shitholes, and Beautiful Things
4 “Unfinished Business”: Digging up the Past in Christine Piper’s After Darkness and Cory Taylor’s My Beautiful Enemy
5 Different Shades of Shame. The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction
6 Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A.S. Patric’s Black Rock, White City (2015)
7 American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction, and Timothy Bewes
8 “Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades”: Individual and Historical Shame in Walcott’s Earlier Poetry
9 Shame, Justice, and the Representation of Violence in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Caryl Phillips
10 Afterword: A Swarm of Locusts Passed By
Index