Narrating Violence and Its Attendant to Trauma in Immaculée Ilibagiza’s <i>Left to Tell</i>
Abimbola Ayo-Afolayan,
Emmanuel Omobowale
Abstract:The Rwanda genocide has spawned a great deal of new literary works that draw inspiration from its experience. Specifically, over the last three decades, violence and trauma are vital contributing thematic focuses in Rwandan post genocide literary works. This study was therefore designed to examine the representations of the experiences of the victims of the genocide in order to establish how violence induces trauma in the characters. Postcolonial theory and trauma were adopted as the framework basically to exa… Show more
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