Morgan, Paula  (Lecturer), <br/><br/>
The terror and the time :  banal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse / 
 Banal violence and trauma in Caribbean discourse 
Paula Morgan. 
 - ix, 247 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789766404963 9766404968 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014507862 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caribbean literature--History and criticism.<br/>Violence--Caribbean Area.<br/>18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA.<br/>18.26 French literature outside Europe.<br/>Caribbean literature.<br/>Violence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Caribbean Area.<br/>Caribbean region.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN849.C3  / M67 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.89729