Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning -- 2. Rites of Communion: Wilson Harris's Hosting of History -- 3. Keeping It in the Family: Passing on Racial Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison -- CONCLUSION: Some Kind of Community -- Notes -- Introduction. Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid -- 2. Rites of Communion -- 3. Keeping It in the Family -- Conclusion. Some Kind of Community -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z.