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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797767503321

Titolo

Postcolonial Traumas [[electronic resource] ] : Memory, Narrative, Resistance / / edited by Abigail Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-137-52643-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004010LIT004070LIT004100LIT004130LIT008020

Disciplina

809/.93358

Soggetti

Oriental literature

British literature

African literature

Literature   

Middle Eastern literature

America—Literatures

Asian Literature

British and Irish Literature

African Literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

Middle Eastern Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Abigail Ward -- 1 Chronic Trauma, (Post)Colonial Chronotopes and Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf (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 Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles -- 6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Alge;rie; Lucy Brisley -- 7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernández Carbajal -- 8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward -- 9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis -- 10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts -- 11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond -- 12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.