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Trauma and transformation in African literature : writing wrongs /
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 of th...
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| 520 | |a 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 of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also what it can do for trauma studies. He makes the case for understanding trauma healing within the larger project of peacebuilding, with an emphasis on the transformative potential of what he terms the African moral imagination as embodied in the creative work of its writers. He offers readings of selected works by Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chimamanda Adichie, and Nuruddin Farah as case studies for how African literature can influence our understanding of trauma and trauma healing. This will be a valuable volume for those with interests in current trends and developments in trauma studies, African literary studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 545 | 0 | |a 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). | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Trauma Theory, Going Global -- Part I: Trauma and African Literature -- 1 Trauma, the Thorn in the Spirit -- 2 Conceptual Problems in Trauma -- 3 Traumatomimesis and the Moral Imagination -- 4 Trauma and the African Moral Imagination -- Part II: Case Studies -- 5 A State of Perpetual Emergency: Ngugi Wa Thiongo's A Grain of Wheat -- 6 Trauma Tropes in a Nigerian Context: Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7 The Trauma of Failure: The State and the Individual in Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones -- Bibliography -- Index | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature. | |
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