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Perceiving pain in African literature

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
作者:	NorridgeZo鋀.,
出版地:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY
出版者:	Palgrave Macmillan;
出版年:	2013
面頁冊數:	1 online resource.
標題:	African fiction (English) - History and criticism. - 20th century -
標題:	Pain in literature. -
標題:	African fiction (French) - History and criticism. - 20th century -
標題:	Postcolonialism. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM / General. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM / African. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. -
標題:	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. -
電子資源:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137292056
附註:	Description based on print version record.
摘要註:	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.
ISBN:	9781137292056electronic bk.
ISBN:	1137292059electronic bk.
ISBN:	0230367429
ISBN:	9780230367425
ISBN:	9781283946773
ISBN:	1283946777
內容註:	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.

Perceiving pain in African literature
Norridge, Zo鋀.

Perceiving pain in African literature / Zo鋀 Norridge, lecturer in English and comparative literature, King's College London, UK. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 1 online resource..
Acknowledgements.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9781137292056ISBN 1137292059ISBN 0230367429ISBN 9780230367425ISBN 9781283946773ISBN 1283946777
African fiction (English)Pain in literature.African fiction (French)Postcolonialism.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.LITERARY CRITICISM / African.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. -- History and criticism. -- History and criticism. -- 20th century -- 20th century

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