UID:
almahu_9949891014902882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781032718552
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1032718552
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9781040086735
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104008673X
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9781040086698
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1040086691
Series Statement:
[Routledge studies in African literature]
Content:
"This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond people's immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead considering how trauma is sustained in the aftermaths, continuing to impact livelihoods, and familial, social, and gender relationships. Drawing on different circumstances and experiences across and between the eastern African region, the book explores how emerging cultural practices involve varying modes of narrating, representing, and thematising insidious trauma. In doing so, the book considers different forms and practices of cultural production, including fashion, social media, film, and literature, in order to uncover how human subjects and cultural artefacts circulate through modalities of social, cultural and political ecologies. Transdisciplinary in scope and showcasing the work of experts from across the region, this book will be an important guide for researchers across literature, media studies, sociology, and trauma studies"--
Note:
Introduction: Contextualizing Insidious Trauma in Eastern Africa --
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Framing Eastern African Precarious Mobilities: Two Women's War Narratives /
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The Trauma of War on Terror in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea /
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Representations of Trauma as a National Crisis: Reading the Scar as a Trope in Kenyan Film /
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Traumatic Embers of Tribalism in Kinyanjui Kombani's Literary Texts /
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Trauma Between Literacy and Literature: Roland Rugero's Baho! /
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Insidious Trauma: Exploring the Female Subject in Controversial Somali Socio-Cultural Practices /
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La SAPE Sartorial Fashion Phenomenon and Cosmopolitan Decolonisation of Trauma in the Congo Region /
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Mediating Trauma Online: Vicarious Afflictions and the Tempering of Everyday Agonies in Kenyan Social Media /
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Narrating Trauma and Queerness: Perspectives on the Kenyan Films Rafiki and Stories of our Lives /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Insidious trauma in eastern African literatures and cultures New York : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032718460
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781032718552
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781032718552
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