Queer postcolonial narratives and the ethics of witnessing. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donna McCormack.
• Authors: McCormack, Donna
• Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Embodied Memories Queer Postcolonial Narratives, or A Note on MethodologyPerformative Listening Historicizing WitnessingQueer Postcolonial StructureChapter One: Intergenerational Witnessing in Cereus Blooms at Night Unknowing PainHistoricizing Responsibility Embodied SurvivalIntergenerational Witnessing Chapter Two: Monstrous Witnessing in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable Embodied StoriesLinguistic TouchingMonstrous EncountersTactile CorrespondenceEmbodied AllegoriesPerformative PainCoda: Eyes at the Tips of the Fingers: Materializing the Self in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit sacrée Chapter Three: Fossil Witnessing in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees Unknowing the FamilyWitnessing Photographs Painting MemoriesMemories as StorytellingIntergenerational FossilsConclusion: Silent Bodies, or Speaking with the Body Decolonizing NormativityVisceral Storytelling, or Multisensory EpistemologiesPerformative EndingsEmbodied EncountersBibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93355; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Witnesses in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Violence in literature; Queer theory; Testimony (Theory of knowledge); Literary theory; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441113788; 1441113789
• Related ISBNs: 9781501310898
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