UID:
almafu_9961673432002883
Format:
1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:
1-80085-232-0
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1-80034-549-6
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online
Content:
Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies of such literature almost universally ignore the topic in favour of a focus on the struggle for independence & the postcolonial situation, encompassing a search for individual, national, & ethnic identities | questions of corruption, changing gender roles, & conflicts between so-called tradition & modernity. Shame, however, is not antithetical to these investigations &, in fact, the persistent trope of shame undergirds many of them. This book locates these expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature & shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject & community on the continent.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface - Negotiating Shame -- Part I - The Many Faces of Shame -- Chapter 1 - Differentiating Shame(s) -- Shame versus Guilt -- Shame's Complicated Relation to Humiliation -- Shame and Its Others -- Chapter 2 - Shame in Africa -- The Shameful Absence of Africa -- Akan Shame and Guilt - An African Communal Perspective -- Three African Shames -- Chapter 3 - Fanon's Shame -- The Shameful of the Earth -- Fanon's Shameful Guilt -- Chapter 4 - Contemporary Views of Traditional Shame -- Contemporary Research on Shame in Africa -- The Non-event of Contemporary Research on Shame in Africa -- Shame and a Sense of Community -- Doing Shame versus Having Been Shamed -- Traditions of Shame and Shaming -- The Shameful and Shameless Role(s) of Tradition(s) -- Part II - Penned in: Shame in the African Novel -- Chapter 5 - Shaming Colonial Africa -- Strident Shaming -- Religious Shame -- Chapter 6 - More of the Shame in Postcolonial Africa -- Chapter 7 - Women's Virtue: Engendering Shame -- Chapter 8 - Excess(ive) Shame and Shamelessness -- "Nous ne lisons pas cette saloppe" -- Sony Labou Tansi and the Discourse of Shame -- "Laughing At" versus "Laughing With" -- Chapter 9 - Naming and Shaming Violence and Corruption -- Corrupting Shame -- Chapter 10 - The Shame of Which We Shall Never Now Speak -- Shame's Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-80034-843-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3828/9781800348431
URL:
Liverpool scholarship online
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