1st Edition
Displaced Literature of Indigeneity, Migration, and Trauma
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.
Introduction: Stories as Medicine
Kate Rose
Part 1: Migration
Chapter 1: Dystopic Dissonance: Migrant Women’s Alienation in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
Augusta Atinuke Irele
Chapter 2: "Tear Down This Wall": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial Literature
Gaura Narayan
Chapter 3: Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora
C. R. Grimmer
Chapter 4: Linda Lê: A Literature of Displacement
Gloria Kwok
Chapter 5:
Languages at war in Latin American women writers
Liliana Guadalupe Chavez Diaz
Chapter 6: They Won’t Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El Salvador
Jeffrey Peer
Part 2: Indigeneity
Chapter 7: Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Neocolonialism: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves
Megan E. Cannella
Chapter 8: Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo Anahuac
Clarissa Castaneda
Chapter 9: Not Lost: ‘We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds’
Margaret McMurtrey
Chapter 10: Writing Memory, Practising Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire’s Novels
Payel Ghosh
Chapter 11: Women’s Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis from Contemporary Novels of Three Continents
Kate Rose
Part 3: Trauma
Chapter 12: Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen’s War Witch
Joya Uraizee
Chapter 13: From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud
Mayy ElHayawi
Chapter 14: Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Hakyoung Ahn
Chapter 15: The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce’s Fantasy Universes
Whitney S. May
Chapter 16: Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings
Xue Wei
Biography
Since publishing Décoloniser l’imaginaire 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: [email protected].
