Trauma and Transformation in African Literature

This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise.

Sommario

Preface
Introduction: Trauma Theory, Going Global
Part I – Trauma and African Literature
Chapter 1: Trauma, the Thorn in the Spirit
Chapter 2: Conceptual Problems in Trauma
Chapter 3: Traumatomimesis and the Moral Imagination
Chapter 4: Trauma and the African Moral Imagination
Part II – Case Studies
Chapter 5: A State of Perpetual Emergency: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
Chapter 6: Trauma Tropes in a Nigerian Context: Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Chapter 7: The Trauma of Failure: The State and the Individual in Nuruddin Farah’s Crossbones
Bibliography

Info autore

J. Roger Kurtz is professor of English and head of the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia PA. His research interests center on East African literatures and cultures, and he is the author Literature and Trauma (Cambridge University Press), Song of Nyarloka: The Writing of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (Mvule Africa Publishers), and Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel (James Currey Press).

Riassunto

This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J. Roger Kurtz, J. Roger (Suny Brockport Kurtz
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367562120
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56212-0
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies