Postcolonial Traumas

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 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

Chapter 3 From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the ‘Casual Cruelty’ of a West Indian Childhood

Chapter 4 Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen

Chapter 5 Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 6 The Postcolonial Graphic Novel and Trauma: From Maus to Malta

Chapter 7 Trauma Theory, Melancholia and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar’s Algerian White/Le Blanc de l’Algérie

Chapter 8 From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the Problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh

Chapter 9 Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body

Chapter 11 Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne

Chapter 12 Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night

Chapter 13 Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama