Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

Name: Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial WorldAuthor(s): Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367626761, 978-0367626761\nSynopsis\nThis book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial worldfrom the Americas to Australiain 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 a.