Liminality of Justice in Trauma and Trauma Literature

Edited By: Pi-hua Ni, Mei-Chuen Wang

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This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.

With a focus on the liminality of justice in trauma, this collective volume probes into the complex liminal status of victim-(forced) victimizer in trauma—a new…

With a focus on the liminality of justice in trauma, this collective volume probes into the complex liminal status of victim-(forced) victimizer in trauma—a new opening well deserving critical attention—and scrutinizes how novelists tackle with literary representations the relevant issues of (in)justice in trauma. The contributions in this collection present theoretical re/visions of trauma and critical studies on trauma literature, ranging from field work on Cambodia’s genocide to literary analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, contemporary Canadian literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.

Pi-hua Ni is a Full Professor of American and British Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. With expertise in postmodern literature, trauma literature, gender studies, diasporic literature and literary theories, she has published one book and several book chapters and journal articles on contemporary women writers, particularly women novelists’ re/visions of androcentric literature and tradition, African American fiction and postmodern fiction. Her latest publications include “Taiwanese Diaspora and Taiwanese American Identity: Julie Wu’s Third Son as a Cornerstone of Taiwanese American Literature” and “It is More than a Bunch of Numbers: Trauma, Voicing and Identity in Jennifer Chow’s The 228 Legacy.”

Mei-Chuen Wang is an Associate Professor in the General Education Center at National Defense University, Taiwan. She has published articles in British Journal of Canadian Studies, Humanitas Taiwanica, and Fiction and Drama. Her current research focuses on the traumatic experiences and legacies of Indian residential schools in Indigenous literature.

Pi-hua Ni, Mei-Chuen Wang, Catherine Ju-yu Cheng, Anna Ferrari, Azra Rashid, Rae-ann Smith