J Roger Kurtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 364542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Roger Kurtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtz |
| SIGNATURE | KURTZ J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York College at Brockport, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature
This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also what it can do for trauma studies. He makes the case for understanding tr…
Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination
Trauma theory claims to represent a ‘new mode of reading and of listening’, but its Eurocentric roots lead to the question of whether or not this approach is relevant in postcolonial contexts. This essay makes the case that engaging trauma theory through African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, mostly because of what it does for the former. African social thought, expressed through its writers and critics, allows us to refine and add…
Bead Bai by Sultan Somjee
Lady Pamela Hicks Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten Simon & Schuster Described as “Downton Abbey meets Oscar Wilde,” this colorful autobiography by Lady Pamela Hicks is worthy of her illustrious family’s many achievements. Involved in several critical moments throughout twentieth-century Western history, Hicks gives us privileged access to such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, and Nehru. Gaute Heivoll Before I …
Debating the language of African literature: Ethiopian contributions
This essay recapitulates a discussion that appeared in a series of articles in the early 1980s in Yekatit, an Ethiopian periodical, in which three leading Ethiopian literary critics – Asfaw Damte, Sahle Sellassie Berhane-Mariam, and Menghistu Lemma – debate whether African national literatures may be written in non-African languages. Their observations and arguments, made with an awareness of the larger debate that was occurring elsewhere on the …
Crossing Over: Identity and Change in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's Song of Nyarloka
t is fortunate for East African literature, as well as for its admirers out- side the region, that Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who has long been rec- ognized within Kenya as one of that country's leading literary lights, is finally receiving greater international recognition. Readers outside of now have easy access to her two best novels, Coming to Birth and The Present Moment, in new editions from the US-based Feminist Press. In addi- tion, a new c…
Language and Ideology in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature: The Case of David Maillu's Macaronic Fiction
Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination
Trauma theory claims to represent a ‘new mode of reading and of listening’, but its Eurocentric roots lead to the question of whether or not this approach is relevant in postcolonial contexts. This essay makes the case that engaging trauma theory through African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, mostly because of what it does for the former. African social thought, expressed through its writers and critics, allows us to refine and add…
Debating the language of African literature: Ethiopian contributions
This essay recapitulates a discussion that appeared in a series of articles in the early 1980s in Yekatit, an Ethiopian periodical, in which three leading Ethiopian literary critics – Asfaw Damte, Sahle Sellassie Berhane-Mariam, and Menghistu Lemma – debate whether African national literatures may be written in non-African languages. Their observations and arguments, made with an awareness of the larger debate that was occurring elsewhere on the …
Crossing Over: Identity and Change in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's Song of Nyarloka
t is fortunate for East African literature, as well as for its admirers out- side the region, that Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who has long been rec- ognized within Kenya as one of that country's leading literary lights, is finally receiving greater international recognition. Readers outside of now have easy access to her two best novels, Coming to Birth and The Present Moment, in new editions from the US-based Feminist Press. In addi- tion, a new c…
Language and Ideology in Postcolonial Kenyan Literature: The Case of David Maillu's Macaronic Fiction
Crossing Over: Identity and Change in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's Song of Nyarloka
t is fortunate for East African literature, as well as for its admirers out- side the region, that Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, who has long been rec- ognized within Kenya as one of that country's leading literary lights, is finally receiving greater international recognition. Readers outside of now have easy access to her two best novels, Coming to Birth and The Present Moment, in new editions from the US-based Feminist Press. In addi- tion, a new c…
Debating the language of African literature: Ethiopian contributions
This essay recapitulates a discussion that appeared in a series of articles in the early 1980s in Yekatit, an Ethiopian periodical, in which three leading Ethiopian literary critics – Asfaw Damte, Sahle Sellassie Berhane-Mariam, and Menghistu Lemma – debate whether African national literatures may be written in non-African languages. Their observations and arguments, made with an awareness of the larger debate that was occurring elsewhere on the …
Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination
Trauma theory claims to represent a ‘new mode of reading and of listening’, but its Eurocentric roots lead to the question of whether or not this approach is relevant in postcolonial contexts. This essay makes the case that engaging trauma theory through African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, mostly because of what it does for the former. African social thought, expressed through its writers and critics, allows us to refine and add…
Bead Bai by Sultan Somjee
Lady Pamela Hicks Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten Simon & Schuster Described as “Downton Abbey meets Oscar Wilde,” this colorful autobiography by Lady Pamela Hicks is worthy of her illustrious family’s many achievements. Involved in several critical moments throughout twentieth-century Western history, Hicks gives us privileged access to such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Queen Elizabeth, Gandhi, and Nehru. Gaute Heivoll Before I …
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature
This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of this exercise include not only what it can do for African literature, but also what it can do for trauma studies. He makes the case for understanding tr…
Art (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)