Kella, Elizabeth

Beloved communities : solidarity and difference in fiction by Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa by Elizabeth Kella ( Book )
11 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 166 libraries worldwide
"In everyday speech, "community" signals intimate, authentic, and deeply egalitarian social relations. Since the 1960s, "community" also often implies political solidarity. Yet, repression and violence clearly operate within communities as well as between them. Does this mean that community is merely a delusion, or is it a worthwhile social and political goal?" "This study examines the ways in which Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa imagine the possibilities and limitations of communities in novels of the 1980s and 1990s. Through their returns to past moments of severe social disruption, the works considered here explore the relations between trauma and oppression that inform many minority histories and contemporary realities, particularly those of a multicultural US and Canada."--BOOK JACKET.

Beloved communities : solidarities and difference in fiction by Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Joy Kogawa by Elizabeth Kella ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide

Realism and its discontents ( Book )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide