Narrating violence in the postcolonial world / edited by Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca.
| Other author | Tunca, Daria. |
| Other author | Romdhani, Rebecca. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world in novels, short stories, plays, and films"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021013652 |
| ISBN | 9780367626761 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032066592 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |