Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué, eds., The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond

Multiple forms of what critics call “trauma” have long shaped the experiences of people living in colonial and postcolonial contexts and inform the literature that stems from them, but scholars tend to focus on individual trauma and to analyze its occurrence and representation through theoretical f...

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Hlavní autor: Bystrom, Kerry
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:Multiple forms of what critics call “trauma” have long shaped the experiences of people living in colonial and postcolonial contexts and inform the literature that stems from them, but scholars tend to focus on individual trauma and to analyze its occurrence and representation through theoretical frameworks derived from “Northern” and “metropolitan” cases such as the Holocaust and US veterans’ response to the Vietnam War. The ambitious and engaging volume The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trau...