This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literature
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 thoughtf
African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents African history through the twin matrices
This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. The book
As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory repr