rethinking the colonial encounter in the age of trauma
A Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, Lynette Russell and Ann McGrath, Editors, Routledge, 2021
How is trauma changing history? How might it help historians write more truthful and revealing histories? In the Age of Trauma, the past is a whorl and historians are learning how to surf. The legacies of imperialism and colonialism are everyone’s: the colonizer and the colonized. Trauma may offer a meeting place for people to find common ground in the settler state.
Angelus Novus, Paul Klee, 1920, Israel Museum, Jerusalem