Additional information

Full Title

Perceiving Pain in African Literature

Author(s)

Z. Norridge

Edition
ISBN

9781137292056, 9780230367425

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.