Postcolonial Traumas (eBook, PDF)

Memory, Narrative, Resistance
Redaktion: Ward, Abigail

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 235
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137526434
• Artikelnr.: 44170652

Autorenporträt

Lucy Brisley, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UK Sandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UK Christopher Davis, University of Warwick, UK Pietro Deandrea, University of Torino, Italy Marie Josephine Diamond, Rutgers University, USA Paulina Grz?da, University of Warsaw, Poland Sam Knowles, independent scholar, UK Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, UK Lyndsey Moore, Lancaster University, UK Ahmad Qabaha, Lancaster University, UK Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK Abigail Ward, University of Nottingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Abigail Ward
1 Chronic Trauma, (Post)Colonial Chronotopes and Palestinian Lives: Omar
Robert Hamilton's (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha
2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty'
of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman
3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph
Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall
4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South
Africa; Paulina Grzeda
5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From to Malta; Sam Knowles
6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's ;
Lucy Brisley
7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem
of Indian Communalism in and ; Alberto Fernández Carbajal
8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold
Sonny Ladoo's ; Abigail Ward
9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach:
Dog Heart; Christopher Davis
10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in ; Gillian Roberts
11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's ; Marie
Josephine Diamond
12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British
Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea
Bibliography
Index