Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1032066598 ISBN 13: 9781032066592

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Rebecca Romdhani is a lecturer at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Daria Tunca works in the Modern Languages Department of the University of Liège.

The authors are members of the postcolonial research group CEREP (http://www.cerep.uliege.be)

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032066598
• ISBN 13: 9781032066592
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Redattore: Romdhani Rebecca, Tunca Daria
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania