Imagining Justice
The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2009
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773534582
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773583290
- Publish Date
- Mar 2009
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Drawing on critical and theoretical material by thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Mahatma Ghandi, and Julia Kristeva, Julie McGonegal supplements indigenous models and approaches with those produced within Euro American discourse. In the process, she develops an understanding of forgiveness and reconciliation based on the interventive power of literature. Through insightful readings of four novels, McGonegal demonstrates the ways in which literature can create the conditions that make processes of postcolonial reconciliation possible.
About the author
Julie McGonegal is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tasmania, Australia.