Información General

• Autores: María Dolores Herrero Granado (coord.), Sonia Baelo Allué (coord.)
• Editores: Rodopi
• Año de publicación: 2011
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9789401200837, 9789042033887
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Resumen

• These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms ‘cultural trauma’ and ‘personal trauma’ intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a catastrophic age such as the present, trauma itself may serve to provide linkage through cross-cultural understanding and new forms of community. Western colonization needs to be theorized in terms of the infliction of collective trauma, and the postcolonial process is itself a post-traumatic cultural formation and condition. Moreover, the West’s claim on trauma studies (via the Holocaust) needs to be put in a perspective recuperating other, non-Western experiences.

  Geo-historical areas covered include Africa (genital alteration) and, more specifically, South Africa (apartheid), the Caribbean (racial and gendered violence in Trinidad; the trauma of Haiti), and Asia (total war in the Philippines; ethnic violence in India compared to 9/11). Special attention is devoted to Australia (Aboriginal and multicultural aspects of traumatic experience) and New Zealand (the Maori Battalion). Writers treated include J.M. Coetzee, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Flanagan, Janette Turner Hospital, Andrew McGahan, Tim Winton, and Patricia Grace. Illuminating insights are provided by creative writers (Merlinda Bobis and Meena Alexander).

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Listado de artículos

• • From Official History to Individual and Collective Trauma

    • Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat

      Aitor Ibarrola Armendariz

      págs. 3-27

      

    • "When the World is Free": Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace's Second World War Novel Tu

      Donna Coates

      págs. 29-55

      

    • Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism

      Merlinda Bobis

      págs. 57-80

      

    • Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory

      Meena Alexander

      págs. 81-97

      

  • Women and Cultural/Colonial Trauma

    • Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 101-133

      

    • Haunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma

      Chantal Zabus

      págs. 153-172

      

    • Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music

      Bárbara María Arizti Martín

      págs. 175-189

      

  • The Australian Apology and Trauma of Unbelonging

    • "Twisted Ghosts": Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth

      Marc Delrez

      págs. 191-204

      

    • The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping

      Heinz Antor

      págs. 205-220

      

    • Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospital's Oyster

      Isabel Fraile Murlanch

      págs. 221-243