Postcolonial Witnessing [[electronic resource] ] : Trauma Out of Bounds / / by Stef Craps |
Autore | Craps Stef |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina |
820.90903
820.9920693 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature
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 |
ISBN |
1-283-86804-0
1-137-29211-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Circular movementsCross-cultural incomprehension; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786584003321 |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds / / Stef Craps |
Autore | Craps Stef |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/920693 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism
Psychic trauma in literature Postcolonialism in literature Wounds and injuries in literature Literature and society |
ISBN |
1-283-86804-0
1-137-29211-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Circular movementsCross-cultural incomprehension; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810830503321 |
Craps Stef
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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