J. Roger Kurtz

Trauma and Transformation in African Literature (eBook, PDF)

Writing Wrongs

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315467528
• Artikelnr.: 59898471

Autorenporträt

J. Roger Kurtz is professor of English and head of the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia PA. His research interests center on East African literatures and cultures, and he is the author Literature and Trauma (Cambridge University Press), Song of Nyarloka: The Writing of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (Mvule Africa Publishers), and Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel (James Currey Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Trauma Theory, Going Global
Part I - Trauma and African Literature
Chapter 1: Trauma, the Thorn in the Spirit
Chapter 2: Conceptual Problems in Trauma
Chapter 3: Traumatomimesis and the Moral Imagination
Chapter 4: Trauma and the African Moral Imagination
Part II - Case Studies
Chapter 5: A State of Perpetual Emergency: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of
Wheat
Chapter 6: Trauma Tropes in a Nigerian Context: Chimamanda Adichie's
Purple Hibiscus
Chapter 7: The Trauma of Failure: The State and the Individual in Nuruddin
Farah's Crossbones
Bibliography