Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Michelle Decker
Reader 2
Myriam J. A. Chancy
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© 2017 Keely M. Shinners
Abstract
This thesis explores South African author K Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) as a narration of personal and national trauma. This narration of trauma, as a disruption of the past in the present, provides insight to an imagination of recursive temporality. Through the temporal insights trauma introduces, it understands a shared history which is outside of modern, linear progression, a history which is always happening, not needing to prove itself but begging to be witnessed. It is this imagination of a collective, recursive history which translates, in the text, towards a decidedly decolonial witnessing.
Recommended Citation
Shinners, Keely, "On Trauma, or, How To Bear Witness to the Quiet Violence of Dreams" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1104.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1104
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
