The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone

Produktbeschreibung

What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel? 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: The Creative
Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative Loops:
Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary History - Mohamed
Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for Nostalgia in Ahmed
Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk Sesay 3. English Language
Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity, Sierra Leonean English and Sierra
Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta
Forna - Saidu Bangura Section II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as
Witness to Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child
and Other Poems: a Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space,
Trauma, and Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar
Chérif Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra
Leonean Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk
Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of the
Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to Society": The
Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in J.M. Coetzee's
Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole 10. Namina Forna's
The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved Community - Mohamed Kamara
11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra Leone: Assessing Claims of
Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales - Stephen Ney 12. The
Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The Freetown Bond: A Life
under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability, Spaces, Symbols and Legends:
Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's
'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index 

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Edited by Ernest Cole and Mohamed Kamara