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Author Durrant, Sam, 1970-

Title Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / Sam Durrant.

Imprint Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.5409358 D937p 2004    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description ix, 142 p. ; 24 cm.
Series SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
Note Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Queen's University, Ontario.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137) and index.
Contents Specters of colonialism -- Speechless before Apartheid: J.M. Coetzee's inconsolable works of mourning -- Rites of communion: Wilson Harris's hosting of history -- Keeping it in the family: passing on racial memory in the novels of Toni Morrison -- Some kind of community.
Subject Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans in literature.
South Africa -- In literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Apartheid in literature.
Guyana -- In literature.
Slavery in literature.
Blacks in literature.
Grief in literature.
ISBN 0791459454 (alk. paper)
9780791459454 (alk. paper)
0791459462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791459461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 248829025
YDXCP 2040013
NZ1 7622763

 
    
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