Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves

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• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature, 52
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Postcolonial Traumas: Theories and Narratives
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Narratives of Trauma
Notes
Bibliography
1 Origins, Original Trauma, and transgenerational Trauma: The Obsessions and Revelations of History
1.1 The Roots That Drown and Save: The Excessive Attachments of Samad Miah Iqbal
1.2 The Routes to Vengeance and the Fight Against History: The Case of Millat Iqbal
1.3 Secrets and Roots: Transgenerational Trauma in the Bowden Women
Note
Bibliography
2 The Erasure of Origins Against Original Trauma: The Ambivalences of Forgetting and Remembering...
2.1 Confronting the “deeper Malaise” of Being Other
2.2 On Beauty and the Uses and Ambiguities of Forgetting
2.3 Nw: The Ambivalence of Trauma and Self
Bibliography
3 Multiple Origins and Multidirectional Memory: Dialogic Histories of Slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing Time
3.1 Genocide in the Suburbs: Trauma and Multidirectional Memory in The Embassy of Cambodia1
3.2 Multiple Ancestries, Violent Memories, and the (im)possibilities of...
Notes
Bibliography
Conclusion: The Forms, Complexities, and Contradictions of Postcolonial trauma
Bibliography
Index