Keywordstrauma theory; postcolonial scholarship; literary criticism; postcolonial trauma; Freudian psychoanalysis; resilience; spirituality; Postcolonial literature; trauma studies; Frantz Fanon; settler colonialism; African literature; migrant literature; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; recognition; solidarity; n/a; Zadie Smith; trauma; multidirectional memory; decolonization; British-Jewish; identity; displacement; multidirectional memory; trauma; ethics; politics; femininity; hybridity; Other; Australian Aboriginal literature; trauma theory; postcolonial criticism; Indigenous studies; Commonwealth studies; Jim Loach; Margaret Humphreys; trauma theory; memory studies; Australian studies; postcolonial trauma; Lost Children of Empire; biopolitics; missing person; homo sacer; Manilaner; Manileños; Holocaust; Quezon; cross-traumatic affiliation; Japanese Occupation; U.S. colonisation; postcolonial theory; Trauma Studies; Philippines; trauma theory; postcolonial trauma theory; (neo)colonialism; contact zone; grief; Edwidge Danticat; Haitian American literature; decolonizing; disciplinary thinking; Holocaust; pedagogy; PTSD; trauma; trigger warnings; traumatic memory; Eastern Europe; the Baltic states; memory politics; postcolonialism; Indigenous intersectionality; decolonizing trauma; Red intersectionality; violence against Indigenous girls