Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds

Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.

Author: Stef Craps
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/13/2012
Pages: 181
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781137543196

About the Author
STEF CRAPS teaches English at Ghent University, Belgium, where he also directs the Centre for Literature and Trauma. He is the author of Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (2005).