Samuel Papa Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Papa Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Papa |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0616-6960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Terror in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon
What does it mean to read Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1992) as a narrative of terror? Drawing on postcolonial theorizations on terror and Rachel Pain’s notion of ‘geotrauma,’ this paper extends the meaning of terror from the political and legal sphere into the fictional representation of intimate terrorism and trauma in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon. The paper argues that terror and trauma constitute a strategic technique by which Darko de…
Remembering the Disremembered
This article reads Abubakar Ibrahim’s short story “The Book of Remembered Things” as an anti-jihadist narrative that meditates on the traumatic effects of violent jihadism on the postcolonial Muslim domestic space and a counternarrative to the dominant body of Western fictional responses to the 9/11 terror attacks. Situated at the intersection of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and postcolonial trauma theory, the article argues that Ibrahim m…
Poems
Remembering the Disremembered
This article reads Abubakar Ibrahim’s short story “The Book of Remembered Things” as an anti-jihadist narrative that meditates on the traumatic effects of violent jihadism on the postcolonial Muslim domestic space and a counternarrative to the dominant body of Western fictional responses to the 9/11 terror attacks. Situated at the intersection of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and postcolonial trauma theory, the article argues that Ibrahim m…
Poems
Remembering the Disremembered
This article reads Abubakar Ibrahim’s short story “The Book of Remembered Things” as an anti-jihadist narrative that meditates on the traumatic effects of violent jihadism on the postcolonial Muslim domestic space and a counternarrative to the dominant body of Western fictional responses to the 9/11 terror attacks. Situated at the intersection of Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and postcolonial trauma theory, the article argues that Ibrahim m…
Terror in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon
What does it mean to read Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1992) as a narrative of terror? Drawing on postcolonial theorizations on terror and Rachel Pain’s notion of ‘geotrauma,’ this paper extends the meaning of terror from the political and legal sphere into the fictional representation of intimate terrorism and trauma in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon. The paper argues that terror and trauma constitute a strategic technique by which Darko de…
African studies (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · History (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 work) · Race, History, and American Society (1 work) · Social Movements and Cultural Identity (1 work)