Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World, 1st Edition

.This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in 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 and films, the contributors critically examine the ethical issues involved in narrating abuse, depicting violated bodies, and presenting romanticized resolutions that may conceal other forms of violence.Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World 1st Edition and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World are 9781000433210, 1000433218 and the print ISBNs are 9780367626761, 0367626764. Additional ISBNs include 9781032066592, 9781003110231, 9781000433166.