Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
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 ....Pages 14-29
From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the ‘Casual Cruelty’ of a West Indian Childhood....Pages 30-47
Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen....Pages 48-64
Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa....Pages 65-82
The Postcolonial Graphic Novel and Trauma: From Maus to Malta....Pages 83-96
Trauma Theory, Melancholia and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar’s Algerian White/Le Blanc de l’Algérie ....Pages 97-111
From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the Problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh ....Pages 112-126
Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body ....Pages 127-142
The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart ....Pages 143-158
Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne ....Pages 159-172
Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night ....Pages 173-189
Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama....Pages 190-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-235