{"product_id":"the-literature-of-contemporary-sierra-ernest-ernest-cole-9781847014177","title":"The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone: Trauma, Resilience, and Creativity","description":"What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe ethnically and linguistically diverse nation of Sierra Leone boasts a rich cultural legacy and, in the first decades of the twenty-first century, has built an internationally recognized literary canon despite the ravages caused by a brutal civil war and then the Ebola and Covid pandemics. While acknowledging the country's literary and creative heritage dating back to the mid-twentieth century, this book interrogates a number of prominent themes and critical perspectives on Sierra Leone's contemporary literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from body studies, post-colonial theory, spatial theory, trauma theory, ecocriticism, history, and cultural studies, scholars and writers from West Africa and the United States tease out the beginnings, ecology, and dynamism of a bona fide national literature. They do so through a careful examination of such themes as social oppression and class distinction, dystopia, ethnocentricity, homophobia, misogyny and gender disparities, anthropocentrism, self-discovery, social transformation, identity, social degradation, genocide, and trauma, while also theorizing constructs such as home, migration, displacement, community, and return. Throughout, contributors argue for a better appreciation of a vibrant national literature by Sierra Leoneans themselves as well as its place in and contribution to world literature more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernest Ernest Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1847014178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847014177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e James Currey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Ernest Ernest Cole","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46431699566847,"sku":"9781847014177","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a36bdd8-c6bc-430c-819b-11a6ab119f8e.jpg?v=1735142128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-literature-of-contemporary-sierra-ernest-ernest-cole-9781847014177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}