This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. Transdisciplinary in scope, this volume will be an important guide for researchers across...
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This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions. Transdisciplinary in scope, this volume will be an important guide for researchers across literature, media studies, sociology, and trauma studies. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualising Insidious Trauma in Eastern Africa -- Writing Trauma -- Applied Research in Social and Cultural Trauma -- Trends in Literary and Cultural Productions in Eastern Africa -- Mapping Trauma Studies in Eastern Africa -- Organisation of the Volume -- Part I: Everyday Trauma in War and Conflict Situations -- Part II: Cultural Dimensions of Quotidian Trauma -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Everyday Trauma in War and Conflict Situations -- Chapter 2: Framing Eastern African Precarious Mobilities: Two Women's War Narratives -- Introduction -- The Question of Identity and Subjectivity -- Women in/at War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Trauma of War on Terror in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea -- Introduction -- The Horror of War on Terror: Owuor's Sensitive and Careful Portrayals -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Representations of Trauma as a National Crisis: Reading the Scar as a Trope in Kenyan Film -- Introduction -- Conceptualising the Scar as a Trope -- Brief Overview of Something Necessary (2013) by Judy Kibinge -- Reconfiguring Political Violence and Trauma -- Refiguring the Victim-Perpetrator Conundrum in Society -- The Trauma Image and Its Vibrations in Mediating Appalling Scars -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: Traumatic Embers of Tribalism in Kinyanjui Kombani's Literary Texts -- Introduction -- Trauma in the Pursuit of Livelihoods -- On Ethnic Identity, Leadership, and Trauma -- Seeking Refuge in Mother Tongue -- The Reprieve of Nicknames -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Cultural Dimensions of Quotidian Trauma -- Chapter 6: Trauma between Literacy and Literature: Roland Rugero's Baho! -- Prelude.
