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History, trauma, and healing in postcolonial narratives : re-constructing identities /
Did colonialism, a world-historical catastrophe, inflict only material damage on the colonized, or did it cause psychic injury as well? What would it mean, then, to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? "In History, Trauma, and Healing in Post-Colonial Narratives", Ifowodo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Colección: | Future of minority studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. 'Into the Zone of Occult Instability': Frantz Fanon, Post-Colonial Trauma and Identity
- 2. Identity or Death! The Trauma of Life and Continuity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
- 3. Experience as the Best Teacher: Trauma, Reference and Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- 4. Trauma and Experience: LaCapra's Caveat to Realists
- 5. Trauma and Literary Theory
- 6. 'But How Will You Know Me?' Trauma, Memory and Meaning
- 7. Reference as Epistemic Access: Trauma's Horizon of Meaning
- 8. Conclusion: Specifying Morrison's Locus of Referentiality
- 9. 'Till the Word and the Wound Fit': History, Memory, and Healing of the Post-Colonial Body-Politic in Derek Walcott's Omeros
- 10. A Free-Floating Wound? Hybridity, Social Complexity and Identity
- 11. 'You all see what it's like without roots in this world?'Acting-Out and Working-Through Trauma
- 12. 'I Felt Every Wound Pass': From African Babble through Greek Manure to a Language that Carries its Cure
- 13. Conclusion: Reading Postcolonial History as a History of Trauma.