The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Difference and Postcolonial Melancholia
| Autor: | Mrinalini Chakravorty |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Value (ethics)
Literature Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Human rights business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Postcolonialism (international relations) 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts Canadian literature Genocide 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Subaltern Language and Linguistics Spanish Civil War 0602 languages and literature Melancholia medicine medicine.symptom business media_common |
| Zdroj: | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 128:542-558 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.542 |
| Popis: | Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje's haunting novel about the Sri Lankan civil war, probes paradoxes that arise in postcolonial fictional representations of transnational violence. What is conveyed by novels of war and genocide that cast the whole of a decolonial territory as a “deathworld”? The prism of death in Anil's Ghost requires readers of this text to relinquish settled notions of how we as humans understand our finitude and our entanglements with the deaths of others. Postcolonial fictions of violence conjoin historical circumstance with phantasmatic expressions to raise important questions about mourning, collective agency, and the subalternity of postcolonial societies. Advancing a theory about “postcolonial crypts” in fiction, I argue that postcolonial fictions' attention to violence transforms notions about the value of human life appraised through a dominant human rights framework. |
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