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Subject(s)

• Violence in literature [Browse]
• Postcolonialism in literature [Browse]
• Violence in motion pictures [Browse]
• Postcolonialism in motion pictures [Browse]

Editor

• Romdhani, Rebecca [Browse]
• Tunca, Daria [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]
• Essays [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world in novels, short stories, plays, and films"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Locating the mutations of colonial violence in the postcolonial world / Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca
• Intimate and gender violence. Ethics, representation, and the spectacle of violence in Marlon James's short fiction and the August town fiction of Kei Miller / Suzanne Scafe
• Narrating Jamaican and Cypriot colonial legacies : postcolonial pathologies of violence in Alecia McKenzie's "Satellite city" and Nora Nadjarian's "Okay, Daisy, finish" / Petra Tournay-Theodotou
• Unscrambling the "grammar of violence" : sexual assault and emotional vulnerability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / Daria Tunca
• Violating virgins : symbolic violence in Tiphanie Yanique's Land of love and drowning / Rebecca Romdhani
• Violence and war. Reading testimony : Congolese Civil War and the trauma of rape in dramatic performances and fiction / Véronique Bragard
• An uneasy alliance : war, violence, and masculinity in contemporary Sri Lankan theatre / Neluka Silva
• Cinematic representations of South African gang violence : enclosed spaces and turf wars / Riaan Oppelt
• Violence on the move. Abjected bodies : The bogus woman and British new slaveries in the context of postcolonial studies / Pietro Deandrea
• Violence, trauma, and the question of redemption in postcolonial Zimbabwe : Petina Gappah's The book of memory / Laura Beck
• Of systemic violence, addressivity, and "the Oil Encounter" : representing the Gulf's Indian diaspora in Benyamin's Goat days / Delphine Munos
• Environmental violence in Australia : the effects of mining and its representation in the indigenous Australian film Satellite boy / Victoria Herche.

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ISBN

• 9780367626761 (hardcover)
• 0367626764 (hardcover)
• 9781032066592 (paperback)
• 1032066598 (paperback)

LCCN

2021013652

OCLC

1240774483

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