Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds /

Despite a stated commitment to cross-cultural solidarity, trauma theory - an area of cultural investigation that emerged out of the 'ethical turn' affecting the humanities in the 1990s - is marked by a Eurocentric, monocultural bias. This book takes issue with the tendency of the founding...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Craps, Stef
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
English literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Lésions et blessures dans la littérature.
Littérature et société.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Society in literature
English literature > Minority authors
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Wounds and injuries in literature
Englisch
Postkoloniale Literatur
Psychisches Trauma > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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