Thesis
"The Clash of the Same World with Itself": American Postcolonial Trauma in Karen Tei Yamishita's "Tropic of Orange"
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2025
Abstract
Studies of postcolonial trauma rarely address the United States as a postcolonial subject. When treatments of ongoing postcolonial impacts do include the US, they often focus on racial or ethnic populations within the US. These populations are treated as postcolonial communities within a United States that is not postcolonial. This thesis argues through Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange that such distinctions are a form of postcolonial acting out wherein the hierarchies of colonialism are reinforced. The novel's dismantling of physical and cultural borders highlights the post-traumatic symptomology of US relations, both internal and global, thus challenging US exclusion from postcolonial theory.
Details
- Title
- "The Clash of the Same World with Itself"
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Contributors
- Robin Blyn (Committee Chair)David Baulch (Committee Member)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries; Argo Scholar Commons
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 31
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99381563233406600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida