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Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World (Hardcover)
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Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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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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