Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing - Couverture rigide

McCormack, Dr. Donna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 144111100X ISBN 13 : 9781441111005

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critical study of the relationship between bodies, memories and communal witnessing. With a focus on the aesthetics and politics of queer postcolonial narratives, this book examines how unspeakable traumas of colonial and familial violence are communicated through the body. Exploring multisensory epistemologies as queer and anti-colonial acts of resistance, McCormack offers an original engagement with collective and public forms of bearing witness that may emerge in response to institutionalized violence. Intergenerational, communal and fragmented narratives are central to this analysis of ethics, witnessing, and embodied memories. Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is the first text to offer a sustained analysis of Judith Butlers and Homi Bhabhas intersecting theories of performativity, and to draw out the centrality of witnessing to the performative structure of power. It moves through queer, postcolonial, disability and trauma studies to explore how the repetition of familial violence throughout multiple generations may be lessened through an embodied witnessing that is simultaneously painful, disturbing and filled with pleasure. Its focus is selected literary texts by Shani Mootoo, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Ann-Marie MacDonald, and it situates this literary analysis in the colonial histories of Trinidad, Morocco and Canada.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Donna McCormack is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Womens and Gender Research (SKOK) at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published a book chapter in the edited collection Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Womens Literature (2012). She has also published articles in The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, The Journal of West Indian Literature, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies and The Journal of Lesbian Studies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 144111100X
• ISBN 13: 9781441111005
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224