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Postcolonial witnessing : trauma out of bounds / Stef Craps.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Craps, Stef
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	English literature > Minority authors > History and criticism. Psychic trauma in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Wounds and injuries in literature. Literature and society.

Table of Contents:

The trauma of empire
The empire of trauma
Beyond trauma aesthetics
Ordinary trauma in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to mother
Mid-mourning in David Dabydeen's "Turner" and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the ghosts
Cross-traumatic affiliation
Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips
Entangled memories in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay.