Zadie Smith And Postcolonial Trauma

Author : Beatriz Pérez Zapata
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000407152
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma written by Beatriz Pérez Zapata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, this volume explores Smith’s challenge of Western theories of trauma and coping, and how her narratives expose the insidiousness of (post)colonial suffering and unbelonging. This book then explores transgenerational trauma, the tensions between remembering and forgetting, multidirectional memory, and the possibilities of the ambiguities and contradictions of the postcolonial and diasporic characters Smith depicts. This analysis discloses Smith’s effort to ethically redefine trauma theory from a postcolonial and decolonial standpoint, reiterates the need to acknowledge and work through colonial histories and postcolonial forms of oppression, and critically reflects on our roles as witnesses of suffering in global times.

Author : Sonya Andermahr
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038421952
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism written by Sonya Andermahr and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism" that was published in Humanities

Author : Tracey Lorraine Walters
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488066
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zadie Smith written by Tracey Lorraine Walters and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith's novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith approaches issues of race, either by deconstructing notions of race or interrogating the complexity of biracial identity; and how Smith takes on contemporary debates concerning notions of Britishness, Englishness, and Black Britishness. Some essays also consider the shifting identities adopted by those who identify with both British and West Indian, South Asian, or East Asian ancestry. Other essays explore Smith's contemporary postcolonial approach to Britain's colonial legacy, and the difference between how immigrants and first-generation British-born children deal with cultural alienation and displacement. This thought-provoking collection is a much-needed critical tool for students and researchers in both contemporary British literature and Diasporic literature and culture."--Back cover.

Author : Stef Craps
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292113
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Witnessing written by Stef Craps and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000956172
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film written by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The volume gathers 12 chapters penned by scholars from Japan, the USA, Canada, and Spain which look into the representation of vulnerability in human bodies and subjectivities. Not only is the array of genres covered in this volume significant— from narrative, drama, poetry, (auto)documentary, or film— in fiction and nonfiction, but also the varied cultural and linguistic coordinates of the literary and filmic texts scrutinized—from the USA, Canada, Spain, France, the Middle East, to Japan. Readers who decide to open the cover of this volume will benefit from becoming familiar with a relatively old topic— that of vulnerability— from a new perspective, so that they can consider the great potential of this critical concept anew.

Author : Carissa Turner Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000728455
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connie Willis’s Science Fiction written by Carissa Turner Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of Connie Willis’s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis’s most famous novel, along with the rest of her oeuvre, performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly—and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location. Willis’s fiction emphasizes that doomsdays happen every day, and they risk being forgotten by some, even as their trauma repeats for others. However, disasters also have the potential to upend accepted knowledge and transform the social order for the better, and this collection considers the ways that Willis pairs comic and tragic modes to reflect these uncertainties.

Author : Wit Pietrzak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000772306
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “All Will Be Swept Away” written by Wit Pietrzak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of Muldoon’s poetic landscape in order to show the complexity with which he approaches the themes of death and mourning. Using archival material as well as a vast array of theoretical apparatuses, the book unveils the psychological, literary and political undertones in his poetry, all the while attending to the operations of the poetic text: its form, its music and its capacity to console, warn and censure.

Author : Tom McAlindon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000578658
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Love and Loss written by Tom McAlindon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability. Though the importance of the socio-political and ideological context is in every case acknowledged, the literary-history context is viewed as primary: hence the introductory survey of foundational Renaissance and Romantic poets with whose work Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin were thoroughly familiar. Although a preoccupation with the subject of time and change in the work of these three poets is a critical commonplace, no one has ever isolated it for special attention, or used it to link them either together or with their historical predecessors. This is an entirely new approach to their work. The critical methodology employed is evidential and analytical rather than theoretical, focussed throughout on the meaning and the mood of each poem and the distinctive individuality of each poet.

Author : Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000649504
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Recognition written by Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover, she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations, as opposed to identity and status, for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this, she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Vandana Saxena
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000422569
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Nation-Building written by Vandana Saxena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicultural societies, the process is a messy one. Different communities remember the past from perspectives that often clash with each other. Multiple memories of a multicultural nation challenge the idea of a singular national identity and call for multiple forms of belonging. Memory and Nation-Building explores the contemporary images of World War II in Malaysian literature and the continuing significance of the conflict in the collective memory and nation-building in Malaysia. Given the multicultural nature of the nation, the War memories of Malaysia are multiple and often contradictory. In the contemporary Malaysian literature, these memories embody the search for a historical narrative that would accommodate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the country.