Ifowodo History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives

Reconstructing Identities
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33798-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Future of Minority Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ifowodo, O.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ogaga Ifowodo is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University