Perceiving pain in African literatur...
Norridge, Zo�e.

 

  • Perceiving pain in African literature[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/96
    書名/作者: Perceiving pain in African literature/ Zo�e Norridge, lecturer in English and comparative literature, King's College London, UK.
    作者: Norridge, Zo�e.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 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.
    ISBN: 9781137292056 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137292059 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230367429
    ISBN: 9780230367425
    ISBN: 9781283946773 (MyiLibrary)
    ISBN: 1283946777 (MyiLibrary)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137292056
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