03797nam 2200721Ia 450 991081083050332120200520144314.01-283-86804-01-137-29211-310.1057/9781137292117(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)99267000000029946320120911d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPostcolonial witnessing trauma out of bounds /Stef Craps1st ed. 2013.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York Palgrave Macmillan20131 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.English literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismPsychic trauma in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureWounds and injuries in literatureLiterature and societyEnglish literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Psychic trauma in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.Wounds and injuries in literature.Literature and society.820.9/920693Craps Stef1698435MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810830503321Postcolonial Witnessing4079889UNINA