This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies,
tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking …

The Sierra Leone civil war, which spanned from 1991 to 2002, is the most brutal war of the
twentieth century, accounting for several thousand deaths and millions of displacements …

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 …

War and its aftermaths are at the kernel of The Memory of Love, yet, rather than only
dwelling on loss and suffering, the novel explores the enabling possibilities of emotion, and …

The application of trauma theory to postcolonial literature has provoked anxiety from critics
concerned about its capacity to impose Eurocentric interpretations. This article evaluates the …

Even though literary works serve as excellent media for bearing witness to trauma,
postcolonial and diasporic literary texts are often dismissed for their falsified accounts of …

Taking into account the interconnectedness of spaces, a number of theorists and writers
have investigated the impact of trauma on subjectivities within their social, cultural, and …

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of
nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria …

The history of Sierra Leone cannot be fully understood without reference to the connections
between diamonds and politics. The economy of Sierra Leone is so closely tied to revenue …

In this essay I discuss the process of writing autobiographical creative fiction, and how a
narrative on trauma can offer the potential for catharsis to both the writer and reader. I give a …