Certainly, trauma fiction by definition tries to put social, cultural or historic maladies into words and, thus, attempts to function as a catalyst for collective and individual experiences, yet also as a means of sharing such experiences with a wider audience. Trauma fiction and postcolonial studies have recently been in the focus of literary and cultural studies – not least with publications such as Craps’ Postcolonial Witnessing (2013) or Gibbs’ Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (2014).
Keywords: trauma fiction, residential school experience, children’s literature, picturebooks
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