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Scripting shame in African literature /
This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Negotiating shame
- Part I. The many faces of shame. Introduction ; ch. 1. Differentiating shame(s) ; ch. 2. Shame in Africa ; ch. 3. Fanon’s shame ; ch. 4. Contemporary views of traditional shame
- Part II. Penned in: Shame in the African novel. Introduction ; ch. 5. Shaming colonial Africa ; ch. 6. More of the shame in postcolonial Africa ; ch. 7. Women’s virtue: engendering shame ; ch. 8 Excess(ive) shame and shamelessness ; ch. 9. Naming and shaming violence and corruption ; ch. 10. The shame of which we shall never now speak
- Shame’s epilogue.