Dissociation, Spirit Possession, and the Languages of Trauma in Some Recent African-British Novels

In the last decade, three novels by African-British authors have been published that portray characters who could be seen as presenting symptoms of dissociative disorder: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love (2010), Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005), and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009). In each of them, an alternative explanatory...More