The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone
Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity
Herausgeber: Ernest Cole, Ernest; Kamara, Mohamed
The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone
Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity
Herausgeber: Ernest Cole, Ernest; Kamara, Mohamed
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What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel?
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What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel?
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Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 667g
- ISBN-13: 9781847014177
- ISBN-10: 1847014178
- Artikelnr.: 71884261
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 667g
- ISBN-13: 9781847014177
- ISBN-10: 1847014178
- Artikelnr.: 71884261
Edited by Ernest Cole and Mohamed Kamara
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: The Creative
Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative
Loops: Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary
History - Mohamed Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for
Nostalgia in Ahmed Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk
Sesay 3. English Language Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity,
Sierra Leonean English and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The
Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta Forna - Saidu Bangura Section
II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as Witness to Violence,
Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child and Other Poems: a
Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space, Trauma, and
Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar Chérif
Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra Leonean
Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk
Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of
the Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to
Society": The Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole
10. Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved
Community - Mohamed Kamara 11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra
Leone: Assessing Claims of Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales -
Stephen Ney 12. The Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The
Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability,
Spaces, Symbols and Legends: Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social
Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's 'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index
Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative
Loops: Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary
History - Mohamed Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for
Nostalgia in Ahmed Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk
Sesay 3. English Language Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity,
Sierra Leonean English and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The
Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta Forna - Saidu Bangura Section
II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as Witness to Violence,
Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child and Other Poems: a
Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space, Trauma, and
Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar Chérif
Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra Leonean
Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk
Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of
the Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to
Society": The Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole
10. Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved
Community - Mohamed Kamara 11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra
Leone: Assessing Claims of Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales -
Stephen Ney 12. The Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The
Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability,
Spaces, Symbols and Legends: Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social
Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's 'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: The Creative
Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative
Loops: Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary
History - Mohamed Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for
Nostalgia in Ahmed Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk
Sesay 3. English Language Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity,
Sierra Leonean English and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The
Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta Forna - Saidu Bangura Section
II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as Witness to Violence,
Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child and Other Poems: a
Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space, Trauma, and
Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar Chérif
Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra Leonean
Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk
Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of
the Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to
Society": The Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole
10. Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved
Community - Mohamed Kamara 11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra
Leone: Assessing Claims of Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales -
Stephen Ney 12. The Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The
Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability,
Spaces, Symbols and Legends: Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social
Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's 'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index
Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative
Loops: Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary
History - Mohamed Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for
Nostalgia in Ahmed Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk
Sesay 3. English Language Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity,
Sierra Leonean English and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The
Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta Forna - Saidu Bangura Section
II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as Witness to Violence,
Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child and Other Poems: a
Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space, Trauma, and
Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar Chérif
Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra Leonean
Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk
Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of
the Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to
Society": The Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole
10. Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved
Community - Mohamed Kamara 11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra
Leone: Assessing Claims of Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales -
Stephen Ney 12. The Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The
Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability,
Spaces, Symbols and Legends: Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social
Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's 'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index