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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"postcolonial trauma"”.
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… Libya have been subjected to different kinds of traumas by the Fascist government. I focus on how these traumas, individual and collective, are documented through these works and discuss how they continue to be relevant today. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, history, literary and trauma …
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Exploring postcolonial trauma in Nigeria as stimulus for creating new plays
… me as a playwright to gain stimulus for creating trauma informed plays. The framework for creating such plays in this research is the centre-periphery concept (Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, 2013, 43) situated with the imagined nation as backdrops for understanding postcolonial trauma. In order …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… between the fictional representation of female trauma and spatial theory. The trauma narratives reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and slavery and the identity of …