1st Edition
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves
Introduction: Postcolonial Traumas: Theories and Narratives
Chapter 1. Origins, Original Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma: The Obsessions and Revelations of History
Chapter 2. The Erasure of Origins against Original Trauma: The Ambivalences of Forgetting and Remembering in White Teeth, On Beauty, and NW
Chapter 3. Multiple Origins and Multidirectional Memory: Dialogic Histories of Slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing Time
Conclusion: The Forms, Complexities, and Contradictions of Postcolonial Trauma
Biography
Beatriz Pérez Zapata is Lecturer of English for Primary Education at the Valencian International University and Assistant Lecturer of English for Specific Purposes at Tecnocampus (Pompeu Frabra University). She obtained her PhD from the University of Zaragoza. She has published extensively on Smith’s work in international journals. She has also published articles on the representation of shame and trauma of diasporic subjects, and postcolonial subjects and refugees in video games. Her research interests are trauma, black British writing, diasporic literature, and the representation of refugees in literature and media.
