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The Splintered Glass
Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond
Series: - Cross/Cultures, Volume: 136
These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms âcultural traumaâ and âpersonal traumaâ intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a catastrophic age such as the present, trauma itself may serve to provide linkage through cross-cultural understanding and new forms of community. Western colonization needs to be theorized in terms of the infliction of collective trauma, and the postcolonial process is itself a post-traumatic cultural formation and condition. Moreover, the Westâs claim on trauma studies (via the Holocaust) needs to be put in a perspective recuperating other, non-Western experiences.
Geo-historical areas covered include Africa (genital alteration) and, more specifically, South Africa (apartheid), the Caribbean (racial and gendered violence in Trinidad; the trauma of Haiti), and Asia (total war in the Philippines; ethnic violence in India compared to 9/11). Special attention is devoted to Australia (Aboriginal and multicultural aspects of traumatic experience) and New Zealand (the Maori Battalion). Writers treated include J.M. Coetzee, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Flanagan, Janette Turner Hospital, Andrew McGahan, Tim Winton, and Patricia Grace. Illuminating insights are provided by creative writers (Merlinda Bobis and Meena Alexander).
Contributors: Meena Alexander, Heinz Antor, Bárbara Arizti, Merlinda Bobis, Donna Coates, Marc Delrez, Maite Escudero, Isabel Fraile, Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz, Susana Onega, Chantal Zabus.
Geo-historical areas covered include Africa (genital alteration) and, more specifically, South Africa (apartheid), the Caribbean (racial and gendered violence in Trinidad; the trauma of Haiti), and Asia (total war in the Philippines; ethnic violence in India compared to 9/11). Special attention is devoted to Australia (Aboriginal and multicultural aspects of traumatic experience) and New Zealand (the Maori Battalion). Writers treated include J.M. Coetzee, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Flanagan, Janette Turner Hospital, Andrew McGahan, Tim Winton, and Patricia Grace. Illuminating insights are provided by creative writers (Merlinda Bobis and Meena Alexander).
Contributors: Meena Alexander, Heinz Antor, Bárbara Arizti, Merlinda Bobis, Donna Coates, Marc Delrez, Maite Escudero, Isabel Fraile, Aitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz, Susana Onega, Chantal Zabus.
Dolores Herrero and Sonia BaeloâAllué teach at the University of Zaragoza. Dolores Herrero has published on Victorian and postcolonial literature, in particular Australian and Indian authors, and on film and cultural studies. She is the co-editor, with Marita Nadal, of Margins in British and American Literature, Film and Culture (1997). Sonia BaeloâAlluéâs current research centres on trauma literature and 9/11 fiction. She has published widely on blank fiction writers, intermediality, and the representation of violence in literature. She is currently preparing a book on Bret Easton Ellis.
"This volume makes an important step towards shaping the more particularized understanding of postcolonial trauma necessary to this field." â Kerry Bystrom, University of Connecticut
Acknowledgements
Introduction
From Official History to Individual and Collective Trauma
Aitor IbarrolaâArmendáriz: Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat
Donna Coates: âWhen the World is Freeâ: Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Graceâs Second World War Novel Tu
Merlinda Bobis: Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism
Meena Alexander: Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory
Women and Cultural/Colonial Trauma
Susana Onega: Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzeeâs In the Heart of the Country
Maite Escudero: âSofter than Cotton, Stronger than Steelâ: Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootooâs Cereus Blooms at Night
Chantal Zabus: Haunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma
The Australian Apology and Trauma of Unbelonging
Bárbara Arizti: Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Wintonâs Dirt Music
Marc Delrez: âTwisted Ghostsâ: Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahanâs The White Earth
Heinz Antor: The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanaganâs The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Isabel Fraile: Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospitalâs Oyster
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction
From Official History to Individual and Collective Trauma
Aitor IbarrolaâArmendáriz: Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat
Donna Coates: âWhen the World is Freeâ: Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Graceâs Second World War Novel Tu
Merlinda Bobis: Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism
Meena Alexander: Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory
Women and Cultural/Colonial Trauma
Susana Onega: Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzeeâs In the Heart of the Country
Maite Escudero: âSofter than Cotton, Stronger than Steelâ: Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootooâs Cereus Blooms at Night
Chantal Zabus: Haunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma
The Australian Apology and Trauma of Unbelonging
Bárbara Arizti: Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Wintonâs Dirt Music
Marc Delrez: âTwisted Ghostsâ: Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahanâs The White Earth
Heinz Antor: The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanaganâs The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Isabel Fraile: Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospitalâs Oyster
Notes on Contributors
Index