Healing the Wound of Empire

This article examines the representation of trauma and strategies for healing in the postcolonial fiction of Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah and Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga. Drawing upon Judith Lewis Herman’s tripartite model of trauma recovery—safety, remembrance and mourning, and re-conn...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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