Perceiving pain in African literature, Zoe Norridge, lecturer in English and comparative literature, King's College, University of London, UK

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Perceiving pain in African literature, Zoe Norridge, lecturer in English and comparative literature, King's College, University of London, UK

Statement of responsibility

Zoe Norridge, lecturer in English and comparative literature, King's College, University of London, UK

Instantiates

• Perceiving pain in African literature

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Copyright

• ©2013

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier.

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent.

Contents

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

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802321068

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

viii, 239 pages

Isbn

9780230367425

Lccn

2012041129

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unmediated

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rdamedia.

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• n

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.b95262830

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(OCoLC)802321068