Trauma and transformation in African literature /
"This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Trauma theory, going global
- Trauma and African literature. Trauma, the thorn in the spirit
- Conceptual problems in trauma
- Traumatomimesis and the moral imagination
- Trauma and the African moral imagination
- Case studies. A state of perpetual emergency : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat
- Trauma tropes in a Nigerian context : Chimamanda Adichie's Purple hibiscus
- The trauma of failure : the state and the individual in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones.