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Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone
Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel?The ethnically and linguistically diverse nation of Sierra Leone boasts a rich cultural legacy and, in the first decades of the twenty-first century, has built an internationally recognized literary canon despite the ravages caused by a brutal civil war and then the Ebola and Covid pandemics. While acknowledging the country's literary and creative heritage dating back to the mid-twentieth century, this book interrogates a number of prominent themes and critical perspectives on Sierra Leone's contemporary literature.Drawing from body studies, post-colonial theory, spatial theory, trauma theory, ecocriticism, history, and cultural studies, scholars and writers from West Africa and the United States tease out the beginnings, ecology, and dynamism of a bona fide national literature. They do so through a careful examination of such themes as social oppression and class distinction, dystopia, ethnocentricity, homophobia, misogyny and gender disparities, anthropocentrism, self-discovery, social transformation, identity, social degradation, genocide, and trauma, while also theorizing constructs such as home, migration, displacement, community, and return. Throughout, contributors argue for a better appreciation of a vibrant national literature by Sierra Leoneans themselves as well as its place in and contribution to world literature more generally.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2025-03-25
- Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
- Vikt666 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor218
- FörlagJames Currey
- ISBN9781847014177
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