Imagining justice the politics of postcolonial forgiveness and reconciliation / Julie McGonegal.

Contents 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.
General noteBased on author's thesis (doctoral)--McMaster University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010277086
ISBN9780773534582
ISBN077353458X

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