SHADES OF TRAUMA IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NOVELS
BY
AMADHE BERNICE OGHO
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY, ABRAKA
Phone No.: 08061299426
Email: berniceogho@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
It has been observed that the evolving critical attentions on contemporary Nigerian literature in general and the novel in particular focus more on the themes of military and political misrule, corruption, gender issues and other social ills. Little attention has been paid to the many trauma which these ills have caused Nigerian citizens. Therefore, this study focuses on shades of trauma in selected Nigerian novels. The selected novels which form our primary data are: Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel (2002), Sefi Atta’s Everything Good will Come (2005), Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow (2006). The study adopts the postcolonial theory of literary criticism as its theoretical framework. This is in a bid to situate the analysis in the contemporary postcolonial crises in the Nigerian society. Our findings reveal that the oppressive nature and the leadership failure of the Nigerian government is mainly responsible for the disillusionment and trauma experienced by a lot of individuals in the Nigerian society. This has given rise to mental and psychological disability and even death. It then concludes that the selected texts are clear testaments of the crises state of the Nigerian society.
Key words: Trauma, Leadership Failure, Postcolonial Theory, Contemporary Society, Nigeria
Ogho, A.B (2022). Shades of Trauma in Selected Nigerian Novels. International Journal of Advanced Academic Research, 8(1), 109-120. Available online at: https://www.ijaar.org/articles/v8n1/ijaar-v8n1-Jan22-p81212.pdf
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