Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture

• Tác giả: Douglas Robinson
• ISBN-13: 978-0814271124
• Thông tin xuất bản: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (320 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462087
• Chủ đề: 1. Displacement (Psychology) in literature; 2. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; 3. Identity (Psychology) in literature; 4. Postcolonialism in literature; 5. Refugees in literature; 6. Deplacement (Psychologie) dans la litterature; 7. Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature; 8. Identite dans la litterature; 9. Postcolonialisme dans la litterature; 10. Refugies dans la litterature; 12. Identitätsentwicklung; 16. Postkoloniale Literatur; 18. Trauma; 19. Vertreibung

Tóm tắt

 Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture is Douglas Robinson's study of postcolonial affect--specifically, of the breakdown of the normative (regulatory) circulation of affect in the refugee experience and the colonial encounter, the restructuring of that regulatory circulation in colonization, and the persistence of that restructuring in decolonization and intergenerational trauma. Robinson defines?somatics? as a cultural construction of?reality? and?identity? through the regulatory circulation of evaluative affect. This book is divided into three essays covering the refugee experience, colonization and decolonization, and intergenerational trauma. Each essay contains a review of empirical studies of its main topic, a study of literary representations of that topic, and a study of postcolonial theoretical spins. The literary representations in the refugee essay are a novel and short story by the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat
  in the colonization essay a short film by Javier Fesser and a novella by Mahasweta Devi (translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)
  and in the intergenerational trauma essay novels by James Welch and Toni Morrison and a short story by Percival Everett. The first essay's theoretical spins include Deleuze and Guattari on nomad thought and Iain Chambers on migrancy
  the second's, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals and theories of postcolonial affect in Bhabha and Spivak
  the third's, work on historical trauma by Cathy Caruth and Dominic LaCapra.