Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves

ISBN-13: 9780367460693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 170 str.

Beatriz Pérez Zapata

Opis

Using the frameworks of trauma and memory studies, this monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s work to foreground postcolonial redefinitions of trauma that challenge universal methods of coping with suffering in global times.

O autorze

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.