Description: The analysis focuses on three broad ethical themes-religion, the memory of violence, and the human-eliciting the novelists' contributions to these debates.
Brief description: Vincent van Bever Donker was born in South Africa, where he received his initial academic training and completed a master's degree in English Literature at the University of the Western Cape as a Mandela Rhodes scholar. He received the Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he completed a D.Phil. in Postcolonial Literature. He currently lectures in English Literature at the University of Northampton.
Review Quotes: Insightful ... makes a vital contribution to a theoretical debate that urgently requires to be kept alive in our turbulent times. This is an important book that places the ethical in a critical relation to World Literature. Premesh Lalu, Professor, Director, Centre for Humanities Research, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape