Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2015) | Viewed by 149828
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between Trauma Studies and postcolonial theory, focusing on the possibilities for creating a decolonized trauma theory that takes account of the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. The issue will build on the insights of, inter alia, Stef Craps’s book, Postcolonial Witnessing, and will respond to his challenge to interrogate and move beyond a Eurocentric trauma paradigm. Authors are invited to submit papers on the theorization and representation of any aspect of non-Western and/or minority cultural trauma. The focus will be predominately, but not exclusively, on literature but could include other artistic and cultural forms and practices.
Dr. Sonya Andermahr
Guest Editor
References:
Bulens, Gert, Samuel Durrant and Robert Eaglestone, The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism (Routledge, 2013).
Stef Craps, Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Culture Out of Bounds (Palgrave, 2013).
Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allue, The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond (Rodopi, 2011).
Ogaga Ifowodo, History, Trauma and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives: Reconstructing Identities (Palgrave, 2013).
Cristina Sandru, World’s Apart: A Postcolonial Reading of Post-1945 East-Central European Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
Irene Visser, "Trauma Theory: Global Aspirations and Local Emendations." In The Local and Global in Postcolonial Literature, ed. P. Punyashee (New Delhi: Authorspress, 2014), pp 40–57.
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Keywords
- decolonized trauma theory
- representing minority group suffering
- representing non-Western cultural traumas
- cross-cultural ethical engagement
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