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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 126
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