The splintered glass : facets of trauma in the post-colony and beyond / / edited by Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures, 136
• TeilnehmendeR: Herrero, M. Dolores.; Baelo-Allué, Sonia.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 136.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms ‘cultural trauma’ and ‘personal trauma’ intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a catastrophic age such as the present, trauma itself may serve to provide linkage through cross-cultural u...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat / Aitor Ibarrola–Armendáriz
• “When the World is Free”: Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace’s Second World War Novel Tu / Donna Coates
• Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism / Merlinda Bobis
• Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory / Meena Alexander
• Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country / Susana Onega
• “Softer than Cotton, Stronger than Steel”: Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night / Maite Escudero
• Haunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma / Chantal Zabus
• Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton’s Dirt Music / Bárbara Arizti
• “Twisted Ghosts”: Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth / Marc Delrez
• The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanagan’s The Sound of One Hand Clapping / Heinz Antor
• Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospital’s Oyster / Isabel Fraile
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.