{"product_id":"zadie-smith-and-postcolonial-trauma-9781032034638","title":"Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monograph analyses Zadie Smith's \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwing Time \u003c\/i\u003eas trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith's humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, this volume explores Smith's challenge of Western theories of trauma and coping, and how her narratives expose the insidiousness of (post)colonial suffering and unbelonging. This book then explores transgenerational trauma, the tensions between remembering and forgetting, multidirectional memory, and the possibilities of the ambiguities and contradictions of the postcolonial and diasporic characters Smith depicts. This analysis discloses Smith's effort to ethically redefine trauma theory from a postcolonial and decolonial standpoint, reiterates the need to acknowledge and work through colonial histories and postcolonial forms of oppression, and cr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e: Postcolonial Traumas: Theories and Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Origins, Original Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma: The Obsessions and Revelations of History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Erasure of Origins against Original Trauma: The Ambivalences of Forgetting and Remembering in \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Multiple Origins and Multidirectional Memory: Dialogic Histories of Slavery in \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Forms, Complexities, and Contradictions of Postcolonial Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018804429143,"sku":"9781032034638","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032034638.jpg?v=1750778210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/zadie-smith-and-postcolonial-trauma-9781032034638","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}