Silence and Silencing in Selected African Novels : Power Dynamics and Transformative Voices

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Silence and Silencing in Selected African NovelsPower Dynamics and Transformative Voices\nAuthor(s): Oumar Chrif Diop\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781666918465, 978-1666918465\nSynopsis\nThrough literary analysis, this book examines how African writers address silence and oppression in novels and poetry. \n\nSilence and Silencing in Selected African Novels: Power Dynamics and Transformative Voices by Oumar Chrif Diop explores representations of rhetorical, sociocultural, and gendered silence and silencing within selected African literature. He examines how African writers deconstruct normative discourses and use aesthetic forms and narrative techniques to confront silencing systems. Within these literary works, characters express their thoughts, emotions, fears, anxieties, and protest through their silence. Through textual analysis, Diop explores the spaces where silence and silencing occur and ho.