Joshua Agbo

Bessie Head and the Trauma of Exile (eBook, ePUB)

Identity and Alienation in Southern African Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head's fiction, including When Rain Clouds Gather, (1969) Maru, (1971) and A Question of Power, (1973), this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature and post-colonial history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000398632
• Artikelnr.: 61470548

Autorenporträt

Joshua Agbo received his Ph.D. in African Literature from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in 2018. He taught the undergraduate, MPhil, and Ph.D. students of Sociology at the University of Cambridge before returning to Nigeria to continue with his teaching career as a Lecturer at the Benue State University, Makurdi. His Ph.D. research was shortlisted for the "Barbara Harlow Prize for Research Excellence," by the University of Texas, Austin, USA, in 2017. Also, his book, How Africans Underdeveloped Africa: A Forgotten Truth in History , was on the StandTall Africa Initiative shortlist for the 2019 Readers' Award . He is a member of Modern Language Association (MLA), African Literature Association (ALA), Post- Colonial Studies Association, etc. Dr. Joshua Agbo is a Manuscript Assessor/ Reviewer for the Pan- African University Press, Austin, Texas, USA and also for Bloomsbury Press, London, United Kingdom. He has published several academic research works, nationally and internationally, including his play, Dead Wood.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Literature of the Oppressed Chapter 2: Exile,
Post-coloniality, Trauma: Theories and Perspectives Chapter 3: The Ordeals
of Crossing: From Home to Exile Chapter 4: The Black-on-black Prejudice
Chapter 5: Black Power and Trauma in a Shut-in World Chapter 6: History
through Fiction or Fiction through History? Chapter 7: Patriarchy and
Power: Women on the Edge of the Cliff Chapter 8: Conclusion: Towards the
Unification of Thematic Trajectories