Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World EPUB
Edited by Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca
Part of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series
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This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world-from the Americas to Australia-in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of violence are specifically rooted in colonial forms of abuse and oppression but constantly move and morph. Taking its cue from theories in such fields as postcolonial, violence, gender, and trauma studies, the book thus shows that violence is slippery in form, but also fluid in nature, so that one must trace its movement across time and space to understand even a single instance of it. When analysing such forms and trajectories of violence in postcolonial creative writing and films, the contributors critically examine the ethical issues involved in narrating abuse, depicting violated bodies, and presenting romanticized resolutions that may conceal other forms of violence.
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- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:05/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781000433210
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:05/09/2021
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- ISBN:9781000433210
