Overview

Through specific and rigorous analysis of contemporary literary texts, this book shows how writers from inside affected communities portray indigeneity, displacement, and trauma. In a world of increasing global inequality, this study aims to demonstrate how literature, and the study of it, can effect positive social change, notably in the face of global environmental, economic, and social injustice. This collection brings together a diverse and compelling array of voices from academics leading their fields around the world, to pioneer a new approach to literary analysis anchored in engagement with our changing world.

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Author:   Kate Rose
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367438012

ISBN 10:   0367438011
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   04 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Stories as Medicine Kate Rose Part 1: Migration Chapter 1: Dystopic Dissonance: Migrant Women’s Alienation in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers Augusta Atinuke Irele Chapter 2: ""Tear Down This Wall"": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial Literature Gaura Narayan Chapter 3: Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora C. R. Grimmer Chapter 4: Linda Lê: A Literature of Displacement Gloria Kwok Chapter 5: Languages at war in Latin American women writers Liliana Guadalupe Chavez Diaz Chapter 6: They Won’t Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El Salvador Jeffrey Peer Part 2: Indigeneity Chapter 7: Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Neocolonialism: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves Megan E. Cannella Chapter 8: Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo Anahuac Clarissa Castaneda Chapter 9: Not Lost: ‘We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds’ Margaret McMurtrey Chapter 10: Writing Memory, Practising Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire’s Novels Payel Ghosh Chapter 11: Women’s Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis from Contemporary Novels of Three Continents Kate Rose Part 3: Trauma Chapter 12: Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen’s War Witch Joya Uraizee Chapter 13: From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud Mayy ElHayawi Chapter 14: Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Hakyoung Ahn Chapter 15: The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce’s Fantasy Universes Whitney S. May Chapter 16: Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings Xue Wei"

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Since publishing Décoloniser l’imaginaire in 2007, Kate Rose has developed socioliterature, involving magical realism, trauma, feminism, and Indigeneity. She taught comparative world literature in China for several years and is now looking for a job in the U.S. Read her work at: https://cumt.academia.edu/KateRose. Contact: katerose8@yahoo.com.

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