Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 269 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781800345492
Content:
This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions of the emotion.
Content:
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 9781800348431
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bishop, Stephen L., 1968 - Scripting shame in African literature Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781800348431
Language:
English
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Scham
;
Schande
;
Literatur
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