Postcolonial Traumas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Abigail Ward

   Pages 1-13

3. 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

   • Lindsey Moore, Ahmad Qabaha

   Pages 14-29

4. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the ‘Casual Cruelty’ of a West Indian Childhood

   • Sandra Courtman

   Pages 30-47

5. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen

   • Emily Zobel Marshall

   Pages 48-64

6. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa

   • Paulina Grzęda

   Pages 65-82

7. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel and Trauma: From Maus to Malta

   • Sam Knowles

   Pages 83-96

8. Trauma Theory, Melancholia and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar’s Algerian White/Le Blanc de l’Algérie

   • Lucy Brisley

   Pages 97-111

9. 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

   Pages 112-126

10. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body

    • Abigail Ward

    Pages 127-142

11. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart

    • Christopher Davis

    Pages 143-158

12. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne

    • Gillian Roberts

    Pages 159-172

13. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night

    • Marie Josephine Diamond

    Pages 173-189

14. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama

    • Pietro Deandrea

    Pages 190-207

15. Back Matter

    Pages 208-235

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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.

• Africa
• African
• America
• Australia
• Cora Diamond
• essay
• fiction
• India
• memory
• resistance
• television
• theatre
• understanding
• women
• writing
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Abigail Ward

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 Grz?da, 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

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