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基本説明
An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life writing in English and French over the last forty years.
Full Description
An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Pain, Literature and the Personal Painful Encounters in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins Between Minds and Bodies - the Location of Pain and Racial Trauma in Works by Bessie Head and J.M. Coetzee Women's Pains and the Creation of Meaning in Francophone Narratives from West Africa Writing around Pain - Personal Testimonies from Rwanda by African Writers Responding to Pain, from Healing to Human Rights: Aminatta Forna, Antjie Krog and James Orbinski Epilogue: Literature and the Place of Pain Works Cited Index
