Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel : Essays.

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The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of trauma, they make clear how the psychic deformations and injuries left behind by racism and col.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; TRAUMA: THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES; Trauma and the Turn to Affect; Permanent Risk: When Crisis Defines a Nation's Writing; Affecting Politics: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the Limits of Trauma; Trauma in the Postcolony: Towards a New Theoretical Approach; It is in the Blood: Trauma and Memory in the South African Novel; The Ethics and Morality of Witnessing: On the Politics of Antjie Krog (Samuel's) Country of My Skull; TRAUMA AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS; Trauma and Genre in the Contemporary South African Novel.

'To speak of this you would need the tongue of a god': On Representing the Trauma of Township ViolenceRethinking Religion in a Time of Trauma; Re-Examining Apartheid Brokenness: To Every Birth Its Blood as a Literary Testament; Disgrace, Historical Trauma, and the Extreme Edge of Civility; Forced Removals as Sites/Sights of Historical Trauma in South African Writing of the 1980s and 1990s; TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND HISTORY; Trauma Refracted: J.M. Coetzee's Summertime; 'Is not the truth the truth?': The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner.

'Nothing like this can be your fault at your age': Trauma-Narrative and the Politics of Self-Accusation in The Innocence of Roast ChickenOut of the Mouths: Voices of Children in Contemporary South African Literature; Replaying Trauma with a Difference: Zoë Wicomb's Dialogic Aesthetic; Trauma, Memory, and History in Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of the Women; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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