Zadie Smith And Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves (Routledge Studies In Contemporary Literature)

Introduction: Postcolonial traumas : theories and narratives -- Origins, original trauma, and the transgenerational trauma : the obsessions and revelations of history -- The erasure of origins against original trauma : the ambivalences of forgetting and remembering in White teeth, On beauty, and NW -- Multiple origins and multidirectional memory : dialogic histories of slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing time -- Conclusion: The forms, complexities, and contradictions of postcolonial trauma.

• | Author: Beatriz Pérez Zapata
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 170 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032034637
• | ISBN-13: 9781032034638