Postcolonial Traumas

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Abigail Ward 1 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 (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha 2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman 3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall 4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda 5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles 6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algerie; Lucy Brisley 7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernandez Carbajal 8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward 9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis 10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts 11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond 12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea Bibliography Index