Research Catalog

Title

The terror and the time : banal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse / Paula Morgan.

Author

Morgan, Paula

Publication

Kingston : University of the West Indies Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

ix, 247 pages; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Banal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse

Subject

• Caribbean literature > History and criticism
• Violence > Caribbean Area
• Caribbean literature
• Violence
• Caribbean Area

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: "Some deep, amnesiac blow" -- Part 1. Ontologies -- "Re-membering our scattered skeletons": literary representations of the Zong Massacre -- "The womb of my otherness": Creolization in "The view from the terrace" and "Barbados" -- Lament of the unhomely: nationhood and nonbelonging in the work of V.S. Naipaul -- "Something inside is laid wide like a wound": Walcott's city of pain and promise -- Part 2. Social issues -- One day for the hunter, one day for the prey: state criminality in Danticat's fiction -- "When memory is a bruise still tender": ageing and alzheimer's in Cascade and Soucouyant -- "Naked with unknowing": cildhood trauma and the unmaking of self -- "Rum till I die": discourses of alcoholism and death -- "No money, no love": representations of the social impact of poverty.

ISBN

• 9789766404963
• 9766404968

OCLC

• 881665974
• SCSB-12556287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library