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02210aam a2200373 i 4500 001 65C4B9BE7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210304010025 008 200616t20212021nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020026580 020 $a 1138205230 020 $a 9781138205239 035 $a (OCoLC)1162517527 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a PR9340 K87 2021 100 1 $a Kurtz, John Roger, $e author. 245 10 $a Trauma and transformation in African literature / $c J. Roger Kurtz. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2021. 300 $a 192 pages; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 126 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a African literature (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Psychic trauma in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism $z Africa. 830 0 $a Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; $v 126. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024934.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302015405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65C4B9BE7CB711EB8C51190E5AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search