Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds /

Craps, Stef,

Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds / Stef Craps, Ghent University, Belgium. - xi, 170 pages ; 23 cm

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.

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English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Literature and society.





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