The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Donald R. Wehrs, Isabelle Wentworth, and Jean-Francois Vernay

THEORETICAL LINEAMENTS: NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND THE AFFORDANCES OF FICTION

Chapter 1: Ontology of Diasporic Emotions in If You See Me, Don't Say Hi by Neel Patel / Angelo Monaco

Chapter 2: The Productivity of 'Negative Emotions' Through Shock Value Fiction: The Case of Australian Indigenous Writers / Jun Feng & Jean-Francois Vernay

Chapter 3: Negative Emotions in the Light of Neuropsychoanalysis: The Generative Matrix of Witi Ihimaera's Multigenerational Saga / Alistair Fox

Chapter 4: First-hand Experiences of the Transformation of Traumatic Memories and Cascading Emotions in the Creative Writing Process / Liane Gabora & Sue Woolfe.

Chapter 5: Managing COVID-19 Anger and Anxiety: The Quarantine Train and the Affective Functions of Online Poetry / Hannah Pardey

EMOTIONS OF LOSS:

Chapter 6: Representing and Resisting Maternal Melancholy in Buchi Emecheta's Second-class Citizen and The Joys of Motherhood / Sonya Andermahr

Chapter 7: Disaffection and Retrieved Agency in Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"/ Donald R. Wehrs

Chapter 8: On Postcolonial Disappointment: Affect's Formal Politics in Post-Transition Narrative from South Africa / Andrew van der Vlies

EMOTIONS OF INSECURITY

Chapter 9: 'Solastalgia' as an Epistemic Approach: "A Map to the Next World," "Averno," and the Power of Negative Affect / Joydeep Chakraborty

Chapter 10: "The squeals and groans are the same": Horror and Subject-Development in Sydney Bridge Upside Down / William Shaw

Chapter 11: Fear in Indigenous Literatures of the Global South: The Poetry of Graciela Huinao and Ellen van Neerven / Isabelle Wentworth

Chapter 12: On Negative Emotions in Apocalyptic Cultural Memories: Literary Affects of Estrangement in "Postcolonial" Acadie / Matthew Cormier

EMOTIONS OF DISCONTENT

Chapter 13: "A Cold Rage Penetrated Her Body": The Transformative Power of Anger in Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men / Melanie Heydari

Chapter 14: On the Other Side of Anger: Nature, Ecology and Culture in Rushdie's Shalimar, the Clown / Lalita Pandit Hogan

Chapter 15: Negative Affect to Positive Resistance: Indignation in Cesaire's Une Tempete / Bradley Irish

Index