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Autore |
Craps Stef |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds / / Stef Craps |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-86804-0 |
1-137-29211-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (183 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Wounds and injuries in literature |
Literature and society |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Trauma of Empire; Broadening the focus; The perils of appropriation; 2 The Empire of Trauma; A product of history; Trauma and the everyday; Pioneering postcolonial trauma theory; Sticking to the event-based model; Tainted origins; 3 Beyond Trauma Aesthetics; Modernist attachments; Positioning the reader; 4 Ordinary Trauma in Sindiwe Magona's Motherto Mother; The TRC and the persistence of the past; Mother to Mother as a literary response to the TRC; 5 Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen's "Turner" and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts |
Hauntology and mid-mourning"Turner" and the oppressive weight of history; Feeding the Ghosts and the unending voyage of the Zong; 6 Cross-Traumatic Affiliation; Memory beyond the nation-state; Bridging the gap between Jewish and postcolonial studies; 7 Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips; Caryl Phillips and the Jewish experience; Parallel histories in Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood; Difference and distance in Higher Ground; Complex relations in The Nature of Blood; Trauma, diaspora, and incomparability; 8 Entangled Memories in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay |
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