Zadie Smith and postcolonial trauma

• Verfasst von: Pérez Zapata, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Zadie Smith and postcolonial trauma
• Titelzusatz: decolonising trauma, decolonising selves
• Verf.angabe: Beatriz Pérez Zapata
• Verlagsort: New York ; London
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: 169 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 52
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-0-367-46069-3
• ISBN: 978-1-03-203463-8
• Schlagwörter: (p)Smith, Zadie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HO 99900
• K10plus-PPN: 1754903495

Abstract

Introduction: Postcolonial traumas : theories and narratives -- Origins, original trauma, and the transgenerational trauma : the obsessions and revelations of history -- The erasure of origins against original trauma : the ambivalences of forgetting and remembering in White teeth, On beauty, and NW -- Multiple origins and multidirectional memory : dialogic histories of slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing time -- Conclusion: The forms, complexities, and contradictions of postcolonial trauma.

Abstract

"Using the frameworks of trauma and memory studies, this monograph analyses Zadie Smith's work to foreground postcolonial redefinitions of trauma that challenge universal methods of coping with suffering in global times"--