Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Section 1: New Perspectives and Persistent Questions
The Burning Book – Marc Amfreville
Exploring the Fictions of Perpetrator Suffering – Sue Vice
“Pleasantly Easy”: Discourses of the Suffering Child in Rwanda Postgenocide – Madelaine Hron
Writing and War: Silence, Disengagement, and Ambiguity – Diana Lary
Section 2: Slavery, Trauma, and the Postcolonial Moment
Following a Ghost: “A Certain Mulatto Woman Slave Named Phibbah” – Elizabeth A. Dolan
Violence and Comedy: The Malayan Emergency in the Malaysian Novels of Lloyd Fernando and Anthony Burgess – Chiu Man Yin
Suffering and Social Death: Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe as Neo-Slave Narrative – Lee Erwin
Violence and Suffering in Shobasakthi’s Gorilla: Configurations of Trauma from the Postcolonial Peripheries – Sharanya Jayawickrama
Section 3: The Poetry and Poetics of Suffering
To Suffer to Wait: Reading Trauma in Two Poems – Harold Schweizer
Poetics of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan – William Franke
Guantanamo Poems: “Guantanamo, amas, amat” – Elisabeth Weber
“Mild, Melancholy and Sedate He Stands”: Melancholy in the British Poetry of Slavery – Damian Shaw
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