04758nam a22005415i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001500186072002300201072001400224100009500238245012700333250001800460264008500478300003400563336002600597337002600623338003600649347002400685490004900709505098800758520177801746650002303524650002903547650003803576650004503614650002803659650002903687650003703716650003603753650002803789700008403817710003403901773002603935776003603961776003603997776003604033830005604069856004604125912001404171912001404185999001704199978-3-031-46345-7DE-He21320251030110902.0cr nn 008mamaa231228s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d a97830314634579978-3-031-46345-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-46345-72doi 4aPN843-849 7aDS2bicssc 7aLIT0000002bisacsh 7aDS2thema1 aPujolràs-Noguer, Esther.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut96865310aMourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writingh[electronic resource] /cby Esther Pujolràs-Noguer, Felicity Hand. a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024. aXIX, 203 p.bonline resource. atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Life Writing,x2730-91930 a1 Introduction: Mourning as a Resistance Trope: Trauma, History and Memory in Indian Ocean Life Writing - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer & Felicity Hand -- Part I: Mourning Memoirs -- 2 The Ectopic Insider: Exploring the Interstices of Travel Writing, Memory and History in M.G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- 3 Of Father and Son: The Configuration of the Trauma of Return in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- Part II: Female Resilience -- 4 Rhizomatic Perennials: Resilience and Survival in Kenyan Asian Memoirs - Felicity Hand -- 5 ‘Learning to wear a sari is a rite of passage’: Shailja Patel’s Inventory of the Migrant Body in Migritude - Esther Pujolràs-Noguer -- Part III: Indian Ocean Crossing -- 6 Transoceanic Connections, Past and Present. Lindsey Collen’s The Indian Ocean as a Unifying Force: A Memoir - Felicity Hand -- 7 Banyans Behind Bars: Three SouthAfrican Indian Memoirs - Felicity Hand. aThis volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities. Esther Pujolràs-Noguer is a Serra-Húnter Fellow in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Lleida, Spain. She teaches postcolonial literature and culture, gender studies and poetry in English. She is a poet and uses creative writing as a therapeutic tool to help people overcome traumas related to gender violence and forced displacements. She is the co-director with Felicity Hand of the research group Ratnakara, which explores the literatures and cultures of the South West Indian Ocean. Felicity Hand is Honorary Professor in the English Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. 0aLiterature.965108 0aProse literature.968654 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature, Modernx21st century.966700 0aComparative literature.14aWorld Literature.96665524aNarrative Text and Prose.96865524aContemporary Literature.96670224aComparative Literature.1 aHand, Felicity.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut9686562 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303146344008iPrinted edition:z978303146346408iPrinted edition:z9783031463471 0aPalgrave Studies in Life Writing,x2730-919396865740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46345-7 aZDB-2-LCM aZDB-2-SXL c56929d56929