Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 222 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781003110231
,
1003110231
Series Statement:
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Content:
Introduction: Locating the mutations of colonial violence in the postcolonial world / Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca -- Intimate and gender violence. Ethics, representation, and the spectacle of violence in Marlon James's short fiction and the August town fiction of Kei Miller / Suzanne Scafe -- Narrating Jamaican and Cypriot colonial legacies : postcolonial pathologies of violence in Alecia McKenzie's Satellite city and Nora Nadjarian's Okay, Daisy, finish / Petra Tournay-Theodotou -- Unscrambling the grammar of violence : sexual assault and emotional vulnerability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Daria Tunca -- Violating virgins : symbolic violence in Tiphanie Yanique's Land of love and drowning / Rebecca Romdhani -- Violence and war. Reading testimony : Congolese Civil War and the trauma of rape in dramatic performances and fiction / Véronique Bragard -- An uneasy alliance : war, violence, and masculinity in contemporary Sri Lankan theatre / Neluka Silva -- Cinematic representations of South African gang violence : enclosed spaces and turf wars / Riaan Oppelt -- Violence on the move. Abjected bodies : The bogus woman and British new slaveries in the context of postcolonial studies / Pietro Deandrea -- Violence, trauma, and the question of redemption in postcolonial Zimbabwe : Petina Gappah's The book of memory / Laura Beck -- Of systemic violence, addressivity, and the Oil Encounter : representing the Gulf's Indian diaspora in Benyamin's Goat days / Delphine Munos -- Environmental violence in Australia : the effects of mining and its representation in the indigenous Australian film Satellite boy / Victoria Herche.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367626761
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367626764
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032066592
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032066598
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narrating violence in the postcolonial world New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 ISBN 9780367626761
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032066592
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Essay
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Essay
DOI:
10.4324/9781003110231
