Andrew Nyongesa, Justus Kizito Makokha, Murimi Gaita

Broschiertes Buch

Otherness and Pathology

The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction

Beschreibung

This book extends Fanon's thesis with regard to madness in selected works of African fiction, in this book, the authors incorporate the fragmented self, which is equally disabling.

Autor

Dr. Andrew Nyongesa is a lecturer at Saint Paul's University (Kenya) and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works are The Water Cycle (2018), Many in One and Other Stories (2019) and The Armageddon and Other Stories all of which are based on postcolonialism and ecocriticism. His latest paper is "Conversation with the "other" style and Pathology in Selected African Novels," by Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies and "Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulet's Blossoms of the Savannah" by Kenya Studies Review. His research interests are postcolonialism, psychological criticism, Black Aesthetics and Eco-criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: African Books Collective
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781779255785
• ISBN-10: 1779255780
• Artikelnr.: 63121077