Trauma, testimony, and community in postcolonial literature in English

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2006 - 2009 (afgewerkt)
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Vakgroep Letterkunde
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Abstract

This FWO-funded postdoctoral research project examines how trauma theory can break with Eurocentrism and thus realize its self-declared ethical potential. It consists of a theoretical part in which the possibility and point of “postcolonializing” trauma theory are investigated, and a practical part made up of three case studies of postcolonial literary oeuvres that bear witness to the suffering engendered by colonial oppression (J. M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, and Eavan Boland).

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Postdoctorale medewerker(s)