Postcolonial witnessing trauma out of bounds.
- XI, 170 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The trauma of empire -- The empire of trauma -- Beyond trauma aesthetics -- Ordinary trauma in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to mother -- Mid-mourning in David Dabydeen's "Turner" and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the ghosts -- Cross-traumatic affiliation -- Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips -- Entangled memories in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay.
978-0-230-23007-1
English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism Literature and society Postcolonialism in literature Psychic trauma in literature Wounds and injuries in literature #SBIB:39A4--Toegepaste antropologie--Applied Anthropology #SBIB:39A5--Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning--Art, Habitat, Material Culture & recreation