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100 1 Norridge, Zo̐Μưe
245 10 Perceiving pain in African literature|h[electronic
resource] /|cZo̐Μưe Norridge, lecturer in English and
comparative literature, King's College London, UK
260 Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;|aNew York, NY :
|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2013
300 1 online resource
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 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
520 Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their
novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such
descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of
simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as
an inevitably pained continent? "Perceiving Pain in
African Literature" argues that the literary text has a
particular role to play in contesting and re-working the
personal, social and political meanings of pain. Drawing
on fiction and life-writing published in English and
French over the last forty years, this book explores the
complexities of literature's invitation to imagine pain.
Themes such as pain and meaning, literature as testimony,
conflict writing, genocide and human rights are explored
in relation to primary texts from West Africa, Zimbabwe,
Rwanda and Southern Africa. Authors including Yvonne Vera,
J.M.Coetzee, Ahmadou Kourouma, Veronique Tadjo and
Aminatta Forna are discussed alongside theoretical
insights from medical anthropology, cultural theory,
postcolonial studies and global literature
520 "Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their
novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such
descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of
simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as
an inevitably pained continent? Perceiving Pain in African
Literature argues that the literary text has a particular
role to play in contesting and re-working the personal,
social and political meanings of pain. Drawing on fiction
and life-writing published in English and French over the
last forty years, this book explores the complexities of
literature's invitation to imagine pain.Themes such as
pain and meaning, literature as testimony, conflict
writing, genocide and human rights are explored in
relation to primary texts from West Africa, Zimbabwe,
Rwanda and Southern Africa. Authors including Yvonne Vera,
J.M.Coetzee, Ahmadou Kourouma, V̐Μưeronique Tadjo and
Aminatta Forna are discussed alongside theoretical
insights from medical anthropology, cultural theory,
postcolonial studies and global literature"--|cProvided by
publisher
588 Description based on print version record
650 0 African fiction (English)|y20th century|xHistory and
criticism
650 0 Pain in literature
650 0 African fiction (French)|y20th century|xHistory and
criticism
650 0 Postcolonialism
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / General.|2bisacsh
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / African.|2bisacsh
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish,
Welsh.|2bisacsh
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.|2bisacsh
655 4 Electronic books
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
776 08 |iPrint version:|aNorridge, Zo̐Μưe.|tPerceiving pain in
African literature|z9780230367425|w(DLC) 2012041129
|w(OCoLC)802321068
856 40 |3Palgrave Connect|uhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com/
doifinder/10.1057/9781137292056
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