Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance

by Abigail Ward (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137526427
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/15/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Lucy Brisley, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UK Sandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UK Christopher Davis, University of Warwick, UK Pietro Deandrea, University of Torino, Italy Marie Josephine Diamond, Rutgers University, USA Paulina Grzęda, University of Warsaw, Poland Sam Knowles, independent scholar, UK Emily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, UK Lyndsey Moore, Lancaster University, UK Ahmad Qabaha, Lancaster University, UK Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK Abigail Ward, University of Nottingham, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; Abigail Ward
1 Chronic Trauma, (Post)Colonial Chronotopes and Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha
2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman
3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall
4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda
5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles
6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algérie; Lucy Brisley
7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernández Carbajal
8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward
9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis
10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts
11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond
12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea
Bibliography
Index