Perceiving Pain in African Literature [electronic resource] /
Norridge, Z.author.
An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Ethics.
African literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Ethics.
African Literature.