The Literature of Contemporary Sierra Leone

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What are Sierra Leonean and diaspora authors writing about today? What genres are they working in? What are future possibilities and directions of travel?

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List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: The Creative Imagination: Language, History, and Culture 1. Unacknowledged Creative Loops: Orature, Literature and Society in Sierra Leone's Contemporary History - Mohamed Gibril Sesay 2. The Past Flows: Water as a Metaphor for Nostalgia in Ahmed Koroma's The Moon Rises Over Isale Eko - Oumar Farouk Sesay 3. English Language Learning and Intelligibility: Idiomaticity, Sierra Leonean English and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Momodu Turay 4. The Female Condition in the Novels of Aminatta Forna - Saidu Bangura Section II: Legacies of War and Pandemic: Literature as Witness to Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 5. Syl Cheney-Coker's Stone Child and Other Poems: a Graphic Exploration of War Trauma - Eustace Palmer 6. Space, Trauma, and Healing in Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen and Me - Oumar Chérif Diop 7. Learning How to Smile Again: Ebola, Resilience, and Sierra Leonean Fiction - Joya Uraizee 8. War and Social Degradation in Oumar Farouk Sesay's Landscape of Memories - Elizabeth Kamara Section III: Visions of the Future: New Genres, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies 9. "A Window to Society": The Human Condition in the Context of Interspecies Relations in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Aminatta Forna's The Window Seat - Ernest Cole 10. Namina Forna's The Gilded Ones: An Afrocentric Vision of the Beloved Community - Mohamed Kamara 11. Smartphone Literature in Today's Sierra Leone: Assessing Claims of Continuity with Traditional Fireside Folktales - Stephen Ney 12. The Intersection of Life and History in Eldred Jones' The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags - Samuel Kamara 13. Relatability, Spaces, Symbols and Legends: Fiction as a Mirror Image for Social Transformation in Walon-Jalloh's 'Dharmendra Died' - Gibrilla Kargbo Index