Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Chronic Trauma, (Post)Colonial Chronotopes and Palestinian Lives: Omar Robert Hamilton's Though I Know the River is Dry/Ma'a Anni A'rif Anna al-Nahr Qad Jaf -- 2 From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood -- 3 Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen -- 4 Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 5 The Postcolonial Graphic Novel and Trauma: From Maus to Malta -- 6 Trauma Theory, Melancholia and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algérie -- 7 From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the Problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh -- 8 Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body -- 9 The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart -- 10 Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne -- 11 Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night -- 12 Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama -- Bibliography -- Index.