Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror"

Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror"

Disrupting Memory

O'Brien, Sarah

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2021

182

Dura

Inglês

9780367443030

15 a 20 dias

517

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Introduction

Chapter One: Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

Chapter Two: Shared Graves: Empire and Trauma in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil

Chapter Three: Haunted Communities: Tracing the Ghosts of the 'war on terror' in Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden

Chapter Four: Spectres of Empire in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Conclusion
Young Man;Wasted Vigil;War on terror;CIA Funding;National trauma;Kite Runner;Haunted communities;President Trump's Foreign Policy;Western trauma theory;Kamila Shamsie;Colonial Trauma;Shamsie's Burnt Shadows;Vice Versa;Soviet Afghan War;Burnt Shadows;Transnational Author;Reluctant Fundamentalist;Trauma Writing;Human Suffering;Family Friend;Global Rupture;CIA Operative;Violent Extremist Organisations;Memory Discourse;American Imperial Power;Afghan Society;Western Trauma;Memory Frames;Stef Craps