Revisiting trauma and homo religiosus in selected texts by Mongo Beti and Véronique Tadjo

This paper locates religion within the literary narratives of traumatogenic experiences such as war and genocide as depicted in the novels The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti and Véronique Tadjo's The Shadows of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda. In spite of evident reference to the rol...

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Main Author: Shelton Muvuti
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2018-03-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/1582