List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shame, Literature and the Postcolonial Chapter one - Writing in, of and around Shame: J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell Chapter two - Cursing the Fathers' Curse: A Tragic Reading of White Shame in J.M. Coetzee's In The Heart of the Country and Age of Iron Susanna Zinato Chapter three - Dictator Games: On Shame, Shitholes, and Beautiful Things Rita Barnard Chapter four - "Unfinished Business": Digging up the past in Christine Piper's After Darkness and Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy Sue Kossew Chapter five - Different Shades of Shame. The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction Annalisa Pes Chapter six - Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A. S. Patric's Black Rock, White City (2015) Dolores Herrero Chapter seven - American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction and Timothy Bewes David Callahan Chapter eight - "Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades": Individual and Historical ;P> Chapter five - Different Shades of Shame.

The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction Annalisa Pes Chapter six - Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A. S. Patric's Black Rock, White City (2015) Dolores Herrero Chapter seven - American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction and Timothy Bewes David Callahan Chapter eight - "Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades": Individual and Historical Shame in Walcott's Earlier Poetry Angelo Righetti Chapter nine - Shame, Justice and the Representation of Violence in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Caryl Phillips Vincent van Bever Donker Chapter ten - Afterword: "A Swarm of Locusts Passed By" Timothy Bewes Index.