Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma : Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves

Introduction: Postcolonial traumas : theories and narratives -- Origins, original trauma, and the transgenerational trauma : the obsessions and revelations of history -- The erasure of origins against original trauma : the ambivalences of forgetting and remembering in White teeth, On beauty, and NW -- Multiple origins and multidirectional memory : dialogic histories of slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing time -- Conclusion: The forms, complexities, and contradictions of postcolonial trauma.