"The Returning Echoes of Our Memory": Networks of Memory and Postcolonial Trauma in Tan Twang Eng's The Gift of Rain

• Main Author: Saxena, Vandana
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Malaysian literature; networks of memory; postcolonial fiction; trauma
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss33/9; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1801/viewcontent/KK_2033_2C_202019_2C_20_26_2034_2C_202020_2010_20Regular_20Section_20__20Saxena.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In the societies forged at the anvil of colonial violence, the stories of the past are a contested territory. For postcolonial writers, literature offers a space to explore the trauma that marks the colonial experience and also to forge connections based on common suffering and loss. Stories and exp...