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Entanglements of Trauma: Relationality and Toni Morrison's Home

@article{Visser2014EntanglementsOT,
  title={Entanglements of Trauma: Relationality and Toni Morrison's Home},
  author={Irene Visser},
  journal={Postcolonial Text},
  year={2014},
  volume={9},
  pages={1-21}
}
  • I. Visser
  • Published 2 July 2014
  • Art
  • Postcolonial Text
Postcolonial trauma studies have from the start enabled the inclusion of interdisciplinary research, but postcolonial literary critics have long hesitated to develop innovative approaches to trauma theory. Now, however, interdisciplinary, comparative, and relational approaches to trauma are explored to accommodate broader ethical and political registers of trauma research for postcolonial studies. This relational, non-oppositional approach is what this article explores and demonstrates in an… 
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