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Article: Mortgaged futures: trauma, subjectivity, and the legacies of colonialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- March 22, 2008
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Because it ... den[ies] the other person all attributes of humanity, colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: "In reality, who am I?"
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
I was ... being transformed into a young woman with a future. What I was most interested in was myself and what I would become.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not
Introduction
In World Memory, a collection of essays on trauma, memory, and witnessing in global contexts, Jill Bennett and I argued that trauma studies has been circumscribed by its predominant focus on Euro-American events and experiences and ...