Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138505582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 182 str.

Sharanya Jayawickrama

Opis

This volume explores the complex and surprising intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social justice across the region through its wide-ranging but closely comparative focus on geo-political sites across East, South, and Southeast Asia.

Spis treści

1. The “Asian Pandemic”: Re-Thinking Memory and Trauma in Cultural Narratives of Asia Today (Rahul K Gairola and Sharanya Jayawickrama)  Part I: Activating Memory as Personal Testimony  2. The Language of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Gao Xingjian (Michael Ka-chi Cheuk)  3. Exorcising the Yellow Perils Within: Internment Trauma and Memory in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and John Okada’s No Boy (Kerry S. Kumabe)  4. Healing from the Khmer Rouge Genocide by “telling the world”: Active Subjectivity and Collective Memory in Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father (Nelly Mok)  5. Forgiving But Not Forgetting in The Garden of Evening Mists (Zhu Ying)  Part II: Traumascapes of Body and State  6. Bonds and Companionship: the Healing Efficacy of the Picture Books of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (Michelle Chan)  7. Tyrants, Typhoons, and Trauma: Spectrality and Magic Realism in Nick Joaquin’s Cave and Shadows (Jocelyn Martin)  8. Engendering Islam: Religio-Cultural Violence and Trauma in Qaisra Shahraz’s The Holy Woman (Elham Fatma, Rahul K Gairola, and Rashmi Gaur)  9. Transgenerational Hauntings in the landscape of Okinawa, Japan: Medoruma Shun’s “Army Messenger” (Kyle Ikeda)