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Masculinities, the Arts of Forgetting, and Intimate Space in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love

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ID9250848
AuthorsZ’étoile Imma (corresponding author), Z'étoile Imma Z'étoile Imma
Year2017
Volume48
Issue2
Pages129
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/reseafrilite.48.2.10
OpenAlexW2675691970
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This article analyzes two novels that grapple with the politics of memory, reconciliation, and forgiveness in the setting of post-civil war Sierra Leone—Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me (2006) and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love (2011). I argue that Jarrett-Macauley and Forna write against the public testimony model of memory proliferated by international Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in post-conflict societies. I suggest that Jarrett-Macauley and Forna center their novels on male protagonists who find that intimate spaces are the more appropriate venue to struggle with the efficacy of silence and truth-telling in the harrowing aftermath of violence and, as such, put forward new and nuanced representations of African masculinities and spatialities

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Forgetting · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology

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