Trauma as Double Wound in Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Bernard Otonye Stephen
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The colonial experience in Africa left deep corporeal and psychic scars. The anti-colonial struggle involved bloody armed conflicts which left many dead and many more physically and psychologically maimed. Writers as diverse as Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ousmane Sembène, and Shimmer Chinodya have variously addressed the cultural, material, racial, class, psychological, and ideological aspects of this unprecedented history. And literary critics have equally responded by examining African literary texts from cultural, Marxist, colonial, and post-colonial angles. However, given the traumatic experience of the struggle for independence, not much has been done by way of applying trauma theory to the study of African literary texts to illuminate Africa's violent encounter with the racist imperialism of Europe. Employing the insights of Cathy Caruth, the essay analyses trauma's characteristic double infliction of a wound on the individual in Chinodya's anti-colonial novel Harvest of Thorns. The traumatic memories of the liberation war testify to the physical and psychic wounds inflicted on the individual and the community.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
161-179
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
48/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Studies & World Literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
Criticism & Theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature and Cultural Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
memory of violence
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
trauma
اصطلاح موضوعی
Zimbabwean liberation war
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