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Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties

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Colonialism as Collective Trauma

2022
This case study analyzes collective trauma’s impact on economic nationalist discourses in India during the independence period, before the Second Five-Year Plan (1956–1961) institutionalized an autarkic development model. Contrary to many historians’ interpretations of this model as inspired by Soviet socialism, this chapter unpacks economic ...
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Healing Colonial Trauma

Journal of Black Studies, 2008
Religious analyses of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) usually examine the theological, eschatological, or ecclesiastical elements of Garvey's vision or those of the UNIA. These approaches relegate the religiosity of Marcus Garvey to ideological frameworks and overlook the ritualistic behavior, dress, and colonial ...
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Colonial Trauma and Literary Silence

Parallax, 2012
The topic of ‘imperial affect’ is first and foremost a disciplinary problem, as the definition of the term ‘affect’ cannot generate a consensus among the discourses that employ it.
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The Colonial Gaze, Modernism, and the Trauma of the Tropics

2020
In the novels Passage to India (1924) and A Handful of Dust (1938), modernism’s encounter with tropical entropy, environmental danger, and existential nightmare is typified in the European man/woman’s encounter with the East. Film versions of these novels were made in the eighties and nineties. This chapter reads these novels and their film adaptations
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The Trauma of Colonialism, European Supremacy, Truth, and Reconciliation

2021
This chapter explores the pervasive and prolonged traumatization of colonialism, European supremacy, and subjugation, specifically in Angola, Kenya, and South Africa; resistance to colonialism and struggle for independence; and truth and reconciliation and reparations as one way to jump-start the healing process from historical trauma.
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Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne

2015
Jindabyne (dir. Ray Lawrence, 2006), the Australian film adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story ‘So Much Water So Close to Home’, focuses on a group of men who embark on a fishing trip and discover the dead body of a woman lying in the river, but choose to continue their holiday rather than curtail it by reporting the body immediately to the police.
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The development and validation of a Colonial Trauma Scale within the Palestinian context.

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
Palestinian people have been facing humanitarian disaster and colonial trauma since 1948. This community urgently requires intensive mental health interventions to help individuals effectively cope with ongoing traumatic events. Developing and validating new measures to assess colonial traumatic symptoms in the Palestinian context will help mental ...
Mahamid F., Veronese G., Bdier D., Fiscone C.   +3 more
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Colonial Trauma and Political Pathways to Healing

2016
In this chapter, the unacceptable burden of psycho-social-physical-health inequalities borne by Indigenous peoples are identified as a signifier of social injustice with political pathways to resolution. Historical and contemporary forms of colonial violence and related colonial trauma are social issues that settler societies need to increase ...
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Colonial Law, Dominant Discourses, and Intergenerational Trauma

2017
Specific historical climates have contributed to the creation of colonial legislation. This chapter examines these developments and, in particular, the doctrine of discovery and the historical role it played in the genocide, subjugation, and alienation of Indigenous cultures across the world.
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