Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

Tunca, Daria; Romdhani, Rebecca

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2021

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9780367626761

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Introduction: Locating the Mutations of Colonial Violence in the Postcolonial World

Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca

Section 1: Intimate and Gender Violence

1 Ethics, Representation, and the Spectacle of Violence in Marlon James's Short Fiction and the August Town Fiction of Kei Miller

Suzanne Scafe

2 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

3 Unscrambling the "Grammar of Violence": Sexual Assault and Emotional Vulnerability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Daria Tunca

4 Violating Virgins: Symbolic Violence in Tiphanie Yanique's Land of Love and Drowning

Rebecca Romdhani

Section 2: Violence and War

5 Reading Testimony: Congolese Civil War and the Trauma of Rape in Dramatic Performances and Fiction

Veronique Bragard

6 An Uneasy Alliance: War, Violence, and Masculinity in Contemporary Sri Lankan Theatre

Neluka Silva

7 Cinematic Representations of South African Gang Violence: Enclosed Spaces and Turf Wars

Riaan Oppelt

Section 3: Violence on the Move

8 Abjected Bodies: The Bogus Woman and British New Slaveries in the Context of Postcolonial Studies

Pietro Deandrea

9 Violence, Trauma, and the Question of Redemption in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory

Laura Beck

10 Of Systemic Violence, Addressivity, and "the Oil Encounter": Representing the Gulf's Indian Diaspora in Benyamin's Goat Days

Delphine Munos

11 Environmental Violence in Australia: The Effects of Mining and Its Representation in the Indigenous Australian Film Satellite Boy

Victoria Herche

List of Contributors
Young Men;Postcolonialism;Violated;Postcolonial Studies;Follow;Postcolonial literature;USA;Postcolonial film;Wo;Violence;White Pipes;Gender studies;Colonial Violence;Migration;Oil Encounter;Conflict;August Town;Colonization;Prison Gang Members;Rape;Sri Lankan;Gender Violence;Hyacinth;Asian Domestic Workers;Confers;Hanover Park;Cape Flats;Bogus Woman;Slow Violence;Gulf Experience;Dambudzo Marechera;Prison Gangs;Trigger Warnings;Empty Empathy;Street Gangs