Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Postcolonial Literature in English (J. M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, and Eavan Boland) Ghent University
This research project examines how trauma theory can break with Eurocentrism and thus realize its self-declared ethical potential. It consists of a theoretical part in which the possibility and point of U+201CpostcolonializingU+201D trauma theory are investigated, and a practical part made up of three case studies of postcolonial literary oeuvres that bear witness to the suffering engendered by colonial oppression.