The event of postcolonial shame / Timothy Bewes.
"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-...
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Table of Contents:
- Shame as form
- Shame, ventriloquy, and the problem of the cliché : Caryl Phillips
- The shame of belatedness : late style in V.S. Naipaul
- Shame and revolutionary betrayal : Joseph Conrad, Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb
- The event of shame in J.M. Coetzee
- Shame and subtraction : towards postcolonial writing.