Msiska Msiska
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Msiska Msiska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Msiska |
| FAMILY NAME | Msiska |
| SIGNATURE | MSISKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Colonialism, Trauma, and Affect
The paper examines Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God, which deals with the advent of colonialism in Nigeria, as a trauma narrative. It argues that, though the novel has generally and profitably been read as exemplifying the problem of cultural conflict in Africa, seen through the prism of the writer’s last memoir, its primary aim is clearly to map out a genealogy of a certain “African Post-colonial structure of feeling,” in which the fracture of tradi…
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Colonialism, Trauma, and Affect
The paper examines Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God, which deals with the advent of colonialism in Nigeria, as a trauma narrative. It argues that, though the novel has generally and profitably been read as exemplifying the problem of cultural conflict in Africa, seen through the prism of the writer’s last memoir, its primary aim is clearly to map out a genealogy of a certain “African Post-colonial structure of feeling,” in which the fracture of tradi…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · History (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Literature (1 work)