Displaced

Since publishing Décoloniser l’imaginaire in 2007, Kate Rose has developed socioliterature, involving magical realism, trauma, feminism, and Indigeneity. She taught comparative world literature in China for several years and is now looking for a job in the U.S. Read her work at: https://cumt.academia.edu/KateRose. Contact: katerose8@yahoo.com.

• Introduction: Stories as MedicineKate RosePart 1: MigrationChapter 1: Dystopic Dissonance: Migrant Women’s Alienation in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the DreamersAugusta Atinuke IreleChapter 2: "Tear Down This Wall": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial LiteratureGaura NarayanChapter 3: Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and DiasporaC. R. GrimmerChapter 4: Linda Lê: A Literature of Displacement Gloria KwokChapter 5: Languages at war in Latin American women writersLiliana Guadalupe Chavez DiazChapter 6: They Won’t Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El SalvadorJeffrey PeerPart 2: IndigeneityChapter 7: Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Neocolonialism: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow ThievesMegan E. Cannella Chapter 8: Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo AnahuacClarissa Castaneda Chapter 9: Not Lost: ‘We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds’Margaret McMurtrey Chapter 10: Writing Memory, Practising Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire’s NovelsPayel GhoshChapter 11: Women’s Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis from Contemporary Novels of Three Continents Kate RosePart 3: TraumaChapter 12: Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen’s War WitchJoya Uraizee Chapter 13: From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal MahmoudMayy ElHayawiChapter 14: Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoHakyoung AhnChapter 15: The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce’s Fantasy UniversesWhitney S. May Chapter 16: Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings Xue Wei