{"product_id":"postcolonial-narrative-and-the-work-sam-durrant-9780791459461","title":"Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era. The works examined bear witness to the colonization of the New World, U.S. slavery, and South African apartheid, histories founded on a violent denial of the humanity of the other that had traumatic consequences for both perpetrators and victims. Working at the borders of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and drawing inspiration from recent work on the Holocaust, Durrant rethinks Freud's opposition between mourning and melancholia at the level of the collective and rearticulates the postcolonial project as an inconsolable labor of remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam Durrant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791459462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791459461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.60w x 0.38d","brand":"Sam Durrant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517418680575,"sku":"9780791459461","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c9e94c5-dadb-46fc-ad37-3cb48772380d.jpg?v=1778731839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postcolonial-narrative-and-the-work-sam-durrant-9780791459461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}