LEADER 03797nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910810830503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-86804-0 010 $a1-137-29211-3 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137292117 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299463 035 $a(EBL)1094993 035 $a(OCoLC)819421439 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001660179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16442498 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14987832 035 $a(PQKB)10770930 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000784028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12352178 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10762618 035 $a(PQKB)11149525 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-29211-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1094993 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299463 100 $a20120911d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostcolonial witnessing $etrauma out of bounds /$fStef Craps 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-31117-0 311 $a0-230-23007-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aHauntology 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 327 $aCircular movementsCross-cultural incomprehension; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aPostcolonial 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aWounds and injuries in literature 606 $aLiterature and society 615 0$aEnglish literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aWounds and injuries in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 676 $a820.9/920693 700 $aCraps$b Stef$01698435 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810830503321 996 $aPostcolonial Witnessing$94079889 997 $aUNINA