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001 2014507862
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050 00 $aPR9205$b.M66 2014
100 1 $aMorgan, Paula$c(Lecturer),$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe terror and the time :$bbanal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse /$cPaula Morgan.
246 1 $aBanal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse
264 1 $aKingston, Jamaica :$bUniversity of the West Indies Press,$c[2014]
300 $aix, 247 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : "Some deep, amnesiac blow" -- Part 1. Ontologies -- "Re-membering our scattered skeletons" : literary representations of the Zong Massacre -- "The womb of my otherness" : Creolization in "The view from the terrace" and "Barbados" -- Lament of the unhomely : nationhood and nonbelonging in the work of V.S. Naipaul -- "Something inside is laid wide like a wound" : Walcott's city of pain and promise -- Part 2. Social issues -- One day for the hunter, one day for the prey : state criminality in Danticat's fiction -- "When memory is a bruise still tender" : ageing and alzheimer's in Cascade and Soucouyant -- "Naked with unknowing" : cildhood trauma and the unmaking of self -- "Rum till I die" : discourses of alcoholism and death -- "No money, no love" : representations of the social impact of poverty.
650 0 $aCaribbean literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zCaribbean Area.