The Event of Postcolonial Shame

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Part One: The Form of Shame Chapter One : Shame as Form Form and Disjunction: A Recent History Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved Three Preliminary Theses Postcolonial Shame and the Novel Chapter Two: Shame, Ventriloquy, and the Problem of the Cliché : Caryl Phillips Precipitation of Shame The Materiality of Postcolonial Shame Cambridge and Crossing the River The Poetics of Impossibility Part Two: The Time of Shame Chapter Three: The Shame of Belatedness: Late Style in V. S. Naipaul Being and Belatedness Late Style in Adorno Liber solemnis: The Enigma of Arrival Crystal of Shame: The Mimic Men Chapter Four: Shame and Revolutionary Betrayal: Joseph Conrad, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Zoë Wicomb Hegel: Text as Antitext Joseph Conrad: Form as the Evacuation of Form Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Imminence of Betrayal Zoë Wicomb: The Difference of the Same Alain Badiou: Subtraction versus Realization Part Three: The Event of Shame Chapter Five: The Event of Shame in J. M. Coetzee The Problem of “Agency” Two Shames in Coetzee Diary of a Bad Year The New Direction Positively White: Slow Man and Corporeal Shame Chapter Six: Shame and Subtraction: Towards Postcolonial Writing The Origins of This Book: Michel Leiris Deleuze and Sartre Subtraction Louis Malle’s L’Inde fantôme Towards Postcolonial Writing Notes Index