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Bessie Head and the trauma of exile : identity and alienation in Southern African fiction / Joshua Agbo.

Agbo, Joshua (författare)
ISBN 9780367710286
Publicerad: London : Routledge, 2021
Engelska 228 pages
Serie: Global Africa
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Innehållsförteckning Sammanfattning Ämnesord
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  • 1: The Literature of the Oppressed -- 2: Exile, Post-coloniality, Trauma: Theories and Perspectives -- 3: The Ordeals of Crossing: From Home to Exile -- 4: The Black-on-black Prejudice -- 5: Black Power and Trauma in a Shut-in World -- 6: History through Fiction or Fiction through History? -- 7: Patriarchy and Power: Women on the Edge of the Cliff -- 8: Conclusion: Towards the Unification of Thematic Trajectories. 
  • "This book investigates themes of exile and oppression in Southern Africa across Bessie Head’s novels and short fiction. An exile herself, arriving in Botswana as a South African refugee, Bessie Head’s fiction serves as an important example of African exile literature. This book argues that Head’s characters are driven to exile as a result of their socio- political ambivalence while still in South Africa, and that this sense of discomfort follows them to their new lives. Investigating themes of trauma and identity politics across colonial and post- colonial contexts, this book also addresses the important theme of black- on- black prejudice and hostility which is often overlooked in studies of Head’s work. ?Covering Head’s shorter fiction as well as her major novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), Maru (1971), A Question of Power (1973), Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981), and A Bewitched Crossroads: An African Saga (1984), this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature and postcolonial history." 

Ämnesord

Exile (Punishment) in literature.  (LCSH)
Identity politics in literature.  (LCSH)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Head, Bessie, 1937-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Klassifikation

823.914 (DDC)
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