Trauma as Archetype, Terror as Arsenal

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" Trauma as Archetype, Terror as Arsenal "
Sophia Akhuemokhan

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076724
Doc. No	:	LA120353
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04802003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Sophia Akhuemokhan
Title & Author	:	Trauma as Archetype, Terror as Arsenal [Article]\ Sophia Akhuemokhan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	48/2
Page No	:	267–284
Abstract	:	The essay traces the changing manifestations of trauma in Nigerian prose, focusing on Ken Saro-Wiwa’s autobiography A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary. The autobiography lies at a crucial nexus in the drift of trauma in narrative, an era during which trauma ceases to adopt pre-historical forms and is officially assembled into terrorist weaponry. Trauma in A Month and a Day results from state terrorism—it is transparently political, and is thereby a link between the archetypes of trauma that precede it and the sub-state terrorism that comes in its wake. The essay concludes that Saro-Wiwa’s diary is a milestone on the route from personal trauma to the trauma of state terrorism in Nigerian testimony. The essay traces the changing manifestations of trauma in Nigerian prose, focusing on Ken Saro-Wiwa’s autobiography A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary. The autobiography lies at a crucial nexus in the drift of trauma in narrative, an era during which trauma ceases to adopt pre-historical forms and is officially assembled into terrorist weaponry. Trauma in A Month and a Day results from state terrorism—it is transparently political, and is thereby a link between the archetypes of trauma that precede it and the sub-state terrorism that comes in its wake. The essay concludes that Saro-Wiwa’s diary is a milestone on the route from personal trauma to the trauma of state terrorism in Nigerian testimony.
Descriptor	:	autobiography
Descriptor	:	Biafra
Descriptor	:	civil war
Descriptor	:	state terrorism
Descriptor	:	trauma
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-04802003‬