The Event of Postcolonial Shame 1st Edition by Timothy Bewes 9781400836499 1400836492

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ISBN 10: 1400836492

ISBN 13: 9781400836499

Author: 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-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch–ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an “event” of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.

Table of contents:

Part One: The Form of Shame
Chapter One: Shame as Form
Chapter Two: Shame, Ventriloquy, and the Problem of the Cliché: Caryl Phillips

Part Two: The Time of Shame
Chapter Three: The Shame of Belatedness: Late Style in V. S. Naipaul
Chapter Four: Shame and Revolutionary Betrayal: Joseph Conrad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Zoë Wicomb

Part Three: The Event of Shame
Chapter Five: The Event of Shame in J. M. Coetzee
Chapter Six: Shame and Subtraction: Towards Postcolonial Writing

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