Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures

Norman Saadi Nikro (Curatore)

Denish Odanga (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025

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.

• Curatore: Norman Saadi Nikro, Denish Odanga
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in African Literature
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 160 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 310 gr.
• EAN: 9781032718521

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