Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation

by Julie McGonegal

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773583290
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Julie McGonegal is a SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tasmania, Australia.