History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives [electronic resource] : Reconstructing Identities /
Ifowodo, O.author.
What would it mean to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? Ogaga Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examination of the lingering impact of imperialist domination, resulting in a refreshing complement to the cultural-materialist studies that dominate the field.
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History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives: Reconstructing Identities; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Into "The Zone of Occult Instability": Frantz Fanon, Postcolonial Trauma, and Identity; Chapter 2: Identity or Death!: The Trauma of Life and Continuity in Wole: Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman; "Nothing but the Will": Of Trauma, Gods, and Humans; A Betrothed Maiden or the Wish to Die Only on One's Terms; The Catalytic and the Catastrophic: Colonialism, A Closing Market, and Anxiety in the African World; Standing on Ceremony-or a Hollow Ritual of Honor?
Repression and Transference: Soyinka and the Writing of DisasterChapter 3: Experience as the Best Teacher: Trauma, Reference, and Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved; Trauma and Experience: LaCapra's Caveat to Realists; Trauma and Literary Theory; "But How Will You Know Me?" Trauma, Memory, and Meaning; Reference as Epistemic Access: Trauma's Horizon of Meaning; Conclusion: Specifying Morrison's Locus of Referentiality; Chapter 4: "Till the Wound and the Word Fit": Healing the Postcolonial Body Politic in Derek Walcott's Omeros; A Free-Floating Wound? Hybridity, Social Complexity, and Identity
"You All See What It's Like without Roots in This World?" Acting Out and Working Through Trauma"I Felt Every Wound Pass": From African Babble through Greek Manure to a Language That Carries Its Cure; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Conclusion: Reading Postcolonial History as a History of Trauma: The Corruption Complex; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What would it mean to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? Ogaga Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examination of the lingering impact of imperialist domination, resulting in a refreshing complement to the cultural-materialist studies that dominate the field.
Sociology.
Psychoanalysis.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Anthropology.
Literature.
Imperialism.
Sociology, general.
Psychoanalysis.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Anthropology.
Literature, general.
Imperialism and Colonialism.