Bewes The Event of Postcolonial Shame

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Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bewes, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1

Part One: The Form of Shame
Chapter One: Shame as Form 11
Form and Disjunction: A Recent History 15
Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved 20
Three Preliminary Theses 23
Postcolonial Shame and the Novel 41

Chapter Two: Shame, Ventriloquy, and the Problem of the Cliché: Caryl Phillips 49
Precipitation of Shame 53
The Materiality of Postcolonial Shame 56
Cambridge and Crossing the River 61
The Poetics of Impossibility 66

Part Two: The Time of Shame
Chapter Three: The Shame of Belatedness: Late Style in V. S. Naipaul 75
Being and Belatedness 78
Late Style in Adorno 82
Liber solemnis: The Enigma of Arrival 87
Crystal of Shame: The Mimic Men 94

Chapter Four: Shame and Revolutionary Betrayal: Joseph Conrad,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Zoë Wicomb 100
Hegel: Text as Antitext 103
Joseph Conrad: Form as the Evacuation of Form 108
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Imminence of Betrayal 115
Zoë Wicomb: The Difference of the Same 123
Alain Badiou: Subtraction versus Realization 128
Part Three: The Event of Shame

Chapter Five: The Event of Shame in J. M. Coetzee 137
The Problem of "Agency" 138
Two Shames in Coetzee 142
Diary of a Bad Year 146
The New Direction 150
Positively White: Slow Man and Corporeal Shame 153

Chapter Six: Shame and Subtraction: Towards Postcolonial Writing 164
The Origins of This Book: Michel Leiris 167
Deleuze and Sartre 169
Subtraction 173
Louis Malle's L'Inde fantôme 178
Towards Postcolonial Writing 187

Notes 193
Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Bewes is associate professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Cynicism and Postmodernity and Reification, or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism.