History, trauma, and healing in postcolonial narratives : reconstructing identities - Ifowodo, Ogaga (New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Into "the Zone of Occult Instability": Frantz Fanon, Postcolonial Trauma, and Identity -- Identity or Death! The Trauma of Life and Continuity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman -- Experience as the Best Teacher: Trauma, Reference, and Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Till the Wound and the Word Fit": Healing the Postcolonial Body Politic in Derek Walcott's Omeros -- Conclusion: Reading Postcolonial History as a History of Trauma: The Corruption Complex.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Postcolonialism in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; afrikkalaiset; afroamerikkalainen kirjallisuus; kolonialismi; orjuus; postkolonialismi; traumat; afrikaner; afroamerikansk litteratur; kolonialism; slaveri; postkolonialism; trauman; Fanon, Frantz; Morrison, Toni; Soyinka, Wole; Walcott, Derek