Scripting Shame In African Literature - Bishop - Books - Liverpool University Press - 9781800348431 - March 1, 2021
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Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies of such literature almost universally ignore the topic in favour of a focus on the struggle for independence and the postcolonial situation, encompassing a search for individual, national, and ethnic identities and questions of corruption, changing gender roles, and conflicts between so-called tradition and modernity. Shame, however, is not antithetical to these investigations and, in fact, the persistent trope of shame undergirds many of them. This book locates these expressions of shame in sub-Saharan

272 pages

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Released March 1, 2021
ISBN13 9781800348431
Publishers Liverpool University Press
Pages 280
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   793 g

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