Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison

by Sam Durrant

Overview

A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791459454
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	12/11/2003
Series:	SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sam Durrant is Lecturer of English at the University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Specters of Colonialism

1. Speechless before Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning

2. Rites of Communion: Wilson Harris's Hosting of History

3. Keeping It in the Family: Passing on Racial Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison

Conclusion: Some Kind of Community

Notes

Works Cited

Index