Introduction: Postcolonial Trauma Novels

Stef Craps and Gert Buelens

Journeying through Hell: Wole Soyinka, Trauma, and Postcolonial Nigeria

Anne Whitehead

Who Speaks? Who Listens?: The Problem of Address in Two Nigerian Trauma Novels

Amy Novak

The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments

Laura Murphy

“You would not add to my suffering if you knew what I have seen”: Holocaust Testimony and Contemporary African Trauma Literature

Robert Eaglestone

Mortgaged Futures: Trauma, Subjectivity, and the Legacies of Colonialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not

Rosanne Kennedy

Apartheid Haunts: Postcolonial Trauma in Lisa Fugard’s Skinner’s Drift

Mairi Emma Neeves

“This text deletes itself”: Traumatic Memory and Space-Time in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story

Shane Graham

The Past in the Present: Personal and Collective Trauma in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit

Ana Miller

The Heterotopic Spaces of Postcolonial Trauma in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

Victoria Burrows

“You your best thing, Sethe”: Trauma’s Narcissism

Petar Ramadanovic

Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood

Stef Craps

The Trans/Historicity of Trauma in Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

Nancy Van Styvendale

Decolonizing Trauma Studies: A Response

Michael Rothberg

Notes on Contributors