Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that mad[...]

Of all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than 'reification' - the process by which men and women are turned into objects, things. Arising out of Marx's account of commodity fetishism, the concept of reific[...]