This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists.

AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Introduction; Abigail Ward1 Chronic Trauma, (Post)Colonial Chronotopes and Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From to Malta; Sam Knowles6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's ; Lucy Brisley7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in and ; Alberto Fernández Carbajal8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's ; Abigail Ward9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in ; Gillian Roberts11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's ; Marie Josephine Diamond12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro DeandreaBibliography Index