Women Writing Trauma in the Global South

Introduction: Concepts and contexts of psychological wounding. Canonical cultural trauma theory and emerging perspectives -- The case for a reconceptualization of trauma -- Wound narratives from the global South -- Aminatta Forna. Fictional representations of traumatic disintegration in The memory of love -- Prolonged and insidious trauma in The devil that danced on the water -- Narrative critique of the PTSD category in Happiness -- Narrative negotiations of a context-specific trauma model -- Complicated witnessing in The devil that danced on the water -- Unempathic gazing and professional witnessing in Happiness -- Post-traumatic resilience in Happiness -- Isabel Allende. Writing during trauma in Paula -- Fictional representations of childhood trauma in Portrait in sepia -- Inscriptions of trauma in landscape: exile and mental dislocation -- Resurfacing wounds in storytelling -- Epistolary narration in articulating bereavement -- Magical realist elements in representing the unspeakable -- Photography as a testimonial practice in Portrait in sepia -- Narrating 'belonging' in My invented country -- Anuradha Roy. Fictional representations of prolonged childhood violence -- Topographic and architectural manifestations of traumatic unhomeliness in An atlas of impossible longing -- Familial disintegration and unhomeliness -- Self-awareness and transgression of forms in articulating trauma -- Epistolary elements and narrative authority -- Conclusion: Connecting trauma narratives in the global South. Inscriptions of complex wounds -- Towards conceptual inclusivity.