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2 445 kr
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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.
731 kr
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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.
Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature
Ambivalent Belonging and Phobic Cosmopolitanism
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.The book starts by building a picture of cosmopolitanism thinking from the European Enlightenment through to key postcolonial thinkers like Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, and Arjun Appadurai. However, the book shows that far from a picture of diverse groups coming together in mutual respect, in fact cosmopolitanism is affected by mutual phobias between migrants and their host cultures. These phobias stem from (ethno)racism, Islamophobia, classicism, clannism, xenophobia, and mutual superiority and inferiority complexes. In building this analysis, the book considers key texts from Ayaan Hirsi, Yasmeen Maxamuud, Jonny Steinberg, Nuruddin Farah, and Santur Ghedi, with settings that range from North America, Canada, Norway, Holland, Germany, South Africa, Saudi Arabia to East Africa.Considering literature on the Somali diaspora within the context of major cosmopolitan theories and postcolonial inflexions, this book is an important contribution to contemporary sociopolitical conversations, and will be of interest to researchers across literary and cultural studies.