Lucy Brisley, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UKSandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UKChristopher Davis, University of Warwick, UKPietro Deandrea, University of Torino, ItalyMarie Josephine Diamond, Rutgers University, USAPaulina Grz?da, University of Warsaw, PolandSam Knowles, independent scholar, UKEmily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, UKLyndsey Moore, Lancaster University, UKAhmad Qabaha, Lancaster University, UKGillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UKAbigail Ward, University of Nottingham, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Abigail Ward 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 (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha 2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman 3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall 4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda 5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles 6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algerie; Lucy Brisley 7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernandez Carbajal 8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward 9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis 10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts 11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond 12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea Bibliography Index

Lucy Brisley, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UKSandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UKChristopher Davis, University of Warwick, UKPietro Deandrea, University of Torino, ItalyMarie Josephine Diamond, Rutgers University, USAPaulina Grz?da, University of Warsaw, PolandSam Knowles, independent scholar, UKEmily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, UKLyndsey Moore, Lancaster University, UKAhmad Qabaha, Lancaster University, UKGillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UKAbigail Ward, University of Nottingham, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Abigail Ward 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 (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha 2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman 3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall 4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda 5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles 6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algerie; Lucy Brisley 7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernandez Carbajal 8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward 9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis 10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts 11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond 12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea Bibliography Index

Lucy Brisley, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UKSandra Courtman, University of Sheffield, UKChristopher Davis, University of Warwick, UKPietro Deandrea, University of Torino, ItalyMarie Josephine Diamond, Rutgers University, USAPaulina Grz?da, University of Warsaw, PolandSam Knowles, independent scholar, UKEmily Zobel Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, UKLyndsey Moore, Lancaster University, UKAhmad Qabaha, Lancaster University, UKGillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, UKAbigail Ward, University of Nottingham, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Abigail Ward 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 (2013); Lindsey Moore and Ahmad Qabaha 2. From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the 'Casual Cruelty' of a West Indian Childhood; Sandra Courtman 3. Harlem Tricksters: Cheating the Cycle of Trauma in the Fiction of Ralph Ellison and Nella Larsen; Emily Zobel Marshall 4. Trauma and Testimony: Autobiographical Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Paulina Grzeda 5. The Postcolonial Graphic Novel: From Maus to Malta; Sam Knowles 6. Trauma Theory, Melancholia, and the Postcolonial Novel: Assia Djebar's Algerian White/Le Blanc de l'Algerie; Lucy Brisley 7. From Colonial to Postcolonial Trauma: Rushdie, Forster and the problem of Indian Communalism in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh; Alberto Fernandez Carbajal 8. Indian-Caribbean Trauma: Indian Indenture and its Legacies in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body; Abigail Ward 9. The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach, The Writing of Breyten Breytenbach: Dog Heart; Christopher Davis 10. Discrepant Traumas: Colonial Legacies in Jindabyne; Gillian Roberts 11. Rape, Representation and Metamorphosis in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; Marie Josephine Diamond 12. Haunted Stages: The Trauma of New Slaveries in Contemporary British Theatre and Television Drama; Pietro Deandrea Bibliography Index