dc.contributor.advisor	Afolabi, Niyi
dc.contributor.advisor	Tissières, Hélène
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Falola, Toyin
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Salgado, César
dc.contributor.committeeMember	De Uriarte, Mercedes
dc.creator	Kahozi, Daniel Migumbu
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-26T18:52:18Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-26T18:52:18Z
dc.date.issued	2016-08
dc.date.submitted	August 2016
dc.date.updated	2017-05-26T18:52:18Z
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation calls attention to six important contemporary texts that portray the effects of the Congo armed conflicts on individuals and their communities. Using trauma and literary theories, I examine how the psychological consequences of war are represented in two novels by Pius Ngandu Nkashama and Mashingaidze Gomo, two plays by Lynn Nottage and Fabien Honoré Kabeya Mukamba, and two memoirs by Lisa J. Shannon and Joseph Mwantuali. My dissertation demonstrates how the selected writers help their readers understand the long-lasting devastating impact of violence on civilians by recreating in their texts moments and symptoms of emotional and psychological trauma. By focusing on the narrative and stylistic techniques these writers deploy in their texts, I reveal the differences and similarities in the way they approach the various issues of armed conflicts and in the goals they are attempting to achieve in their texts. Some of these writers, as this work illustrates, present fragmented speeches and dialogues to draw attention to the effects of traumatic memories while others incorporate songs and poems into their texts to highlight the role that music and poetry can play in the healing of trauma. My dissertation ultimately shows that the differences among the selected writers underscore the complexities involved in the narration of war stories.
dc.description.department	Comparative Literature
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier	doi:10.15781/T2QB9VB46
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2152/47041
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject	Armed conflicts
dc.subject	War
dc.subject	Congo
dc.subject	Emotional trauma
dc.subject	Psychological trauma
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	Novelists
dc.subject	Playwrights
dc.subject	Memoirists
dc.subject	Pius Ngandu Nkashama
dc.subject	Mashingaidze Gomo
dc.subject	Lynn Nottage
dc.subject	Fabien Honoré Kabeya Mukamba
dc.subject	Lisa J. Shannon
dc.subject	Joseph Mwantuali
dc.subject	Psychological consequences of war
dc.subject	Impact of violence
dc.subject	Congo armed conflicts in literature
dc.subject	Congo in literature
dc.subject	Trauma in literature
dc.title	The worst place on Earth to be a woman : novelists, playwrights, and memoirists on the Congo armed conflicts (1996-2010)
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.material	text
thesis.degree.department	Comparative Literature
thesis.degree.discipline	Comparative Literature
thesis.degree.grantor	The University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy

The worst place on Earth to be a woman : novelists, playwrights, and memoirists on the Congo armed conflicts (1996-2010)

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