04725nam 22008655 450 991078658400332120200919035254.01-283-86804-01-137-29211-310.1057/9781137292117(CKB)2670000000299463(EBL)1094993(OCoLC)819421439(SSID)ssj0001660179(PQKBManifestationID)16442498(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660179(PQKBWorkID)14987832(PQKB)10770930(SSID)ssj0000784028(PQKBManifestationID)12352178(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784028(PQKBWorkID)10762618(PQKB)11149525(DE-He213)978-1-137-29211-7(MiAaPQ)EBC1094993(EXLCZ)99267000000029946320151209d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial Witnessing[electronic resource] Trauma Out of Bounds /by Stef Craps1st ed. 2013.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (183 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-31117-0 0-230-23007-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 GhostsHauntology 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 BombayCircular movementsCross-cultural incomprehension; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexPostcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.Literature   Literature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingLiterature, Modern—20th centuryAmerica—LiteraturesAfrican literaturePostcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000North American Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000African Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000Literature   .Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.Literature, Modern—20th century.America—Literatures.African literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Twentieth-Century Literature.North American Literature.African Literature.820.90903820.9920693Craps Stefauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1528609BOOK9910786584003321Postcolonial Witnessing3772278UNINA