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Odanga / Saadi Nikro / Odhiambo Ogone

Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-71846-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 15.07.2024
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This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.

The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond people’s immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead considering how trauma is sustained in the aftermaths, continuing to impact livelihoods, and familial, social, and gender relationships. Drawing on different circumstances and experiences across and between the eastern African region, the book explores how emerging cultural practices involve varying modes of narrating, representing, and thematising insidious trauma. In doing so, the book considers different forms and practices of cultural production, including fashion, social media, film, and literature, in order to uncover how human subjects and cultural artefacts circulate through modalities of social, cultural and political ecologies.

Transdisciplinary in scope and showcasing the work of experts from across the region, this book will be an important guide for researchers across literature, media studies, sociology, and trauma studies.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032718460
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-71846-0
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.07.2024
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2024
  • Serie: Routledge Studies in African Literature
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 470 g
  • Seiten: 170
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Odanga, Denish

Saadi Nikro, Norman

Odhiambo Ogone, James

Musumba, Obala

Obura, Oduor

1. Introduction: Contextualizing Insidious Trauma in Eastern Africa

 

Part I: Everyday Trauma in War and Conflict Situations

 

2. Framing Eastern African Precarious Mobilities: Two Women’s War Narratives

3. The Trauma of War on Terror in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea

4. Representations of Trauma as a National Crisis: Reading the Scar as a Trope in Kenyan Film

5. Traumatic Embers of Tribalism in Kinyanjui Kombani’s Literary Texts

 

Part II: Cultural Dimensions of Quotidian Trauma

 

6. Trauma Between Literacy and Literature: Roland Rugero’s Baho!

7. Insidious Trauma: Exploring the Female Subject in Controversial Somali Socio-Cultural Practices

8. La SAPE Sartorial Fashion Phenomenon and Cosmopolitan Decolonisation of Trauma in the Congo Region

9. Mediating Trauma Online: Vicarious Afflictions and the Tempering of Everyday Agonies in Kenyan Social Media

10. Narrating Trauma and Queerness: Perspectives on the Kenyan Films Rafiki and Stories of our Lives