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E-grāmata: Displaced: Literature of Indigeneity, Migration, and Trauma [Taylor & Francis e-book]

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Literature of Indigeneity Migration and Trauma. 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.

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.

Socioliterature: Stories as Medicine 1(4)
Kate Rose
PART 1 Migration
5(104)
1 Dystopic Dissonance: Migration and Alienation in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers
7(15)
Augusta Atinuke Irele
2 "Tear Down This Wall": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial Literature
22(17)
Gaura Narayan
3 Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora
39(17)
C. R. Grimmer
4 Linda Le: A Literature of Displacement
56(16)
Gloria Kwok
5 Languages at War in Latin American Women Writers
72(17)
Liliana Chavez Diaz
6 They Won't Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El Salvador
89(20)
Jeffrey Peer
PART 2 Indigeneity
109(74)
7 Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Colonialism: Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves and Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God
111(10)
Megan E. Cannella
8 Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo Anahuac
121(16)
Clarissa Castaneda
9 Not Lost: "We Are People of the Land. We Are Clay People, People of the Mounds"
137(14)
Margaret Mcmurtrey
10 Writing Memory, Practicing Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire's Novels
151(16)
Pay El Ghosh
11 Women's Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Novels from Three Continents
167(16)
Kate Rose
PART 3 Trauma
183(76)
12 Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen's War Witch
185(9)
Joya Uraizee
13 From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud
194(20)
Mayy Elhayawi
14 Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
214(15)
Hakyoung Ahn
15 The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce's Fantasy Universes
229(16)
Whitney S. May
16 Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings
245(14)
Aviva Xue
Notes on Contributors 259(4)
Index 263
Since publishing Décoloniser limaginaire 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.