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The Splintered Glass. : Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond.
These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms 'cultural trauma' and 'personal trauma' intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a catastrophic age such as the present, trauma itself may serve to provide linkage thro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Editions Rodopi
2011.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
136. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; FROM OFFICIAL HISTORY TO INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA; Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat; "When the World is Free": Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace's Second World War Novel Tu; Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism; Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory; WOMEN AND CULTURAL / COLONIAL TRAUMA; Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country.
- "Softer than Cotton, Stronger than Steel": Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at NightHaunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma; THE AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY AND TRAUMA OF UNBELONGING; Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music; "Twisted Ghosts": Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth; The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping; Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospital's Oyster.