She questions, for example, the apparent Eurocentric psychoanalytical emphasis, contextualised by the trauma of the Holocaust, on melancholia and configurations of aporia and the related neglect of models of healing and renewal based on non-Western belief systems and practices. In ‘Trauma Theory and Postcolonial Literary Studies’ (2011), Irene Visser asks to what extent trauma theories are genuinely productive in a postcolonial context.
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