History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives
Reconstructing Identities
(Sprache: Englisch)
What would it mean to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? Ogaga Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examination of the lingering impact of imperialist domination, resulting in a refreshing complement to the cultural-materialist studies that dominate the field.
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What would it mean to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? Ogaga Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examination of the lingering impact of imperialist domination, resulting in a refreshing complement to the cultural-materialist studies that dominate the field.
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Introduction 1. 'Into the Zone of Occult Instability': Frantz Fanon, Post-Colonial Trauma and Identity 2. Identity or Death! The Trauma of Life and Continuity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman 3. Experience as the Best Teacher: Trauma, Reference and Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved 4. Trauma and Experience: LaCapra's Caveat to Realists 5. Trauma and Literary Theory 6. 'But How Will You Know Me?' Trauma, Memory and Meaning 7. Reference as Epistemic Access: Trauma's Horizon of Meaning 8. Conclusion: Specifying Morrison's Locus of Referentiality 9. 'Till the Word and the Wound Fit': History, Memory, and Healing of the Post-Colonial Body-Politic in Derek Walcott's Omeros 10. A Free-Floating Wound? Hybridity, Social Complexity and Identity 11. 'You all see what it's like without roots in this world?'Acting-Out and Working-Through Trauma 12. 'I Felt Every Wound Pass': From African Babble through Greek Manure to a Language that Carries its Cure 13. Conclusion: Reading Postcolonial History as a History of Trauma
Autoren-Porträt von O. Ifowodo
Ogaga Ifowodo is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: O. Ifowodo
- 2013, 1st ed., 219 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 1349474452
- ISBN-13: 9781349474455
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Englisch
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