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Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many of these texts wrestle with Canada's colonial past and with the voices and histories that were repressed in the push for national consolidation but emerge now as uncanny reminders of that co

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Discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation have emerged as powerful scripts for interracial negotiations in states struggling with the legacies of colonialism. While such discourses can obscure or even perpetuate existing power relations, they can also encourage remembrance, reformulate notions of justice, and ultimately bring about social transformation. 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. The first book to approach the political demands for reconciliation from the perspective of postcolonial literary criticism and theory, Imagining Justice demonstrates that reading can have potentially radical social and political effects. While the primary focus is on literary texts, the issues at stake are germane to historians, political scientists, theologians, and sociologists.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Forgiveness in literature. --- Reconciliation in literature. --- Literature and society --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Postcolonialisme --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Pardon dans la littérature. --- Réconciliation dans la littérature. --- Littérature et société --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire --- Malouf, David, --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Kogawa, Joy. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Forgiveness in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Reconciliation in literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Sociolinguistics --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Pardon dans la littérature. --- Réconciliation dans la littérature. --- Littérature et société --- Littérature anglophone --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Pardon --- Réconciliation --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique