5/20/2023 0 Comments Karima lazali colonial traumaThis chapter also develops the patterning of traumatic subjectivity as a theoretical and methodological stance for revisiting memories repeatedly, and attending to what is not or only partially spoken. Third, biographical, autoethnographic, and experimental forms of writing comprise a literary mode for gathering female knowledge about the respiratory, bodily, and psychic effects of war and colonialism. Second, private intimacies in the family are connected to a global temporal genealogy of the British imperial governance of race, sex, and gender in China and contemporary England. ‘Respiratory politics’ accords urgent attention to breathing as an intimate site for analyzing colonialism, its psychic erasures and violence, and migration to the heart of empire. Connections between historical trauma, wartime, and ideas about intergenerational transmission are set against three generations of female kin in two kinds of household: the Chinese family in British Hong Kong in wartime and post-war imperial Asia and the Anglo-Chinese family in England. COVID is a mnemonic for the reprisal of fears of suffocation and dying around war and displacement in the late colonial period of British rule in Hong Kong, and Japanese occupation. This chapter outlines the book’s proposition of breathing with historical trauma in the global COVID pandemic.
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