Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Postcolonial Traumas: Theories and Narratives
	Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Narratives of Trauma
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1 Origins, Original Trauma, and transgenerational Trauma: The Obsessions and Revelations of History
	1.1 The Roots That Drown and Save: The Excessive Attachments of Samad Miah Iqbal
	1.2 The Routes to Vengeance and the Fight Against History: The Case of Millat Iqbal
	1.3 Secrets and Roots: Transgenerational Trauma in the Bowden Women
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2 The Erasure of Origins Against Original Trauma: The Ambivalences of Forgetting and Remembering...
	2.1 Confronting the “deeper Malaise” of Being Other
	2.2 On Beauty and the Uses and Ambiguities of Forgetting
	2.3 Nw: The Ambivalence of Trauma and Self
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3 Multiple Origins and Multidirectional Memory: Dialogic Histories of Slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing Time
	3.1 Genocide in the Suburbs: Trauma and Multidirectional Memory in The Embassy of Cambodia1
	3.2 Multiple Ancestries, Violent Memories, and the (im)possibilities of...
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Conclusion: The Forms, Complexities, and Contradictions of Postcolonial trauma
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