Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation, McGill-Queen's University Press.
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, with some social imagination, bring about transformation.
"McGonegal provides lucid discussion of theoretical models and fictional works, weaving disparate discourses into coherent arguments with ease. I can find little to quibble with in this fine study... Imagining Justice is groundbreaking." |
Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Rodopi Press.
Literature for Our Times gathers a diverse range of essays that explore the evolving landscape of postcolonial studies. Embracing multiple approaches in a spirit of "convivial democracy," this collection spans regions, genres, and themes to map the field’s shifting directions. From world literature and diaspora to cosmopolitanism, translation, and migration, both established and emerging scholars illustrate the ongoing relevance of postcolonial analysis in addressing today’s global challenges.
"A volume that bespeaks the contemporaneity of a field of studies that keeps producing fresh and wide-ranging contributions to the critique of old and new colonialisms." |