Narrating violence in the postcolonial world / edited by Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tunca, Daria, editor.

Romdhani, Rebecca, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Violence in motion pictures.

Postcolonialism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Locating the mutations of colonial violence in the postcolonial world / Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca

Intimate and gender violence. Ethics, representation, and the spectacle of violence in Marlon James's short fiction and the August town fiction of Kei Miller / Suzanne Scafe

Narrating Jamaican and Cypriot colonial legacies : postcolonial pathologies of violence in Alecia McKenzie's "Satellite city" and Nora Nadjarian's "Okay, Daisy, finish" / Petra Tournay-Theodotou

Unscrambling the "grammar of violence" : sexual assault and emotional vulnerability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Daria Tunca

Violating virgins : symbolic violence in Tiphanie Yanique's Land of love and drowning / Rebecca Romdhani

Violence and war. Reading testimony : Congolese Civil War and the trauma of rape in dramatic performances and fiction / Véronique Bragard

An uneasy alliance : war, violence, and masculinity in contemporary Sri Lankan theatre / Neluka Silva

Cinematic representations of South African gang violence : enclosed spaces and turf wars / Riaan Oppelt

Violence on the move. Abjected bodies : The bogus woman and British new slaveries in the context of postcolonial studies / Pietro Deandrea

Violence, trauma, and the question of redemption in postcolonial Zimbabwe : Petina Gappah's The book of memory / Laura Beck

Of systemic violence, addressivity, and "the Oil Encounter" : representing the Gulf's Indian diaspora in Benyamin's Goat days / Delphine Munos

Environmental violence in Australia : the effects of mining and its representation in the indigenous Australian film Satellite boy / Victoria Herche.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781000433210

1000433218

Publisher Number:

40030918342

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