Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxane Gay’s novel An Untamed State as a trauma narrative which does not solely revolve around the Haitian American protagonist’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ensuing her abduction and violation in Port-au-Prince, as suggested by previous critical work. Particularly, it aims to demonstrate that Gay’s heroine is a resilient survivor of both a rape-related trauma and the traumatic blow to her partly Haitian identity caused by her direct contact with Haiti’s social and gender issues. Lastly, the essay examines how the novel delves into the unresolved cultural traumas derived from the effects of (post)colonialism in Haiti, which push the protagonist...
textThis is a study of three contemporary Colombian novels using combat trauma theory as an interpre...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Canonical trauma theory has been employed to examine the literary inscription of trauma since its em...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
This article explores Haitian American writer Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State (2014) as a novel that r...
Since the early 1990s, trauma theory has acquired paradigmatic status as a methodology for studying ...
Starting from the symbolic presence of a scar in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker, which illustrat...
In an attempt to decolonize Trauma Studies, a dominant mental health discourse, and to expand our un...
Dominant theorizations of cultural trauma often appeal to the twinned notions of “recognition” and “...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
textThis is a study of three contemporary Colombian novels using combat trauma theory as an interpre...
textThis is a study of three contemporary Colombian novels using combat trauma theory as an interpre...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Canonical trauma theory has been employed to examine the literary inscription of trauma since its em...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxan...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
This article explores Haitian American writer Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State (2014) as a novel that r...
Since the early 1990s, trauma theory has acquired paradigmatic status as a methodology for studying ...
Starting from the symbolic presence of a scar in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker, which illustrat...
In an attempt to decolonize Trauma Studies, a dominant mental health discourse, and to expand our un...
Dominant theorizations of cultural trauma often appeal to the twinned notions of “recognition” and “...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
This article starts by engaging in a dialogue with the most relevant postcolonial emendations to tra...
textThis is a study of three contemporary Colombian novels using combat trauma theory as an interpre...
textThis is a study of three contemporary Colombian novels using combat trauma theory as an interpre...
The objective of this article is twofold: to deepen into the psychoanalytical concepts of trauma and...
Canonical trauma theory has been employed to examine the literary inscription of trauma since its em...