![]() However, because traumatic memories resist the narrative framework of the novel, questions are posed not only about the reliability of the narrator's memory and his/her ability to narrate a credible story, but also about the suitability of the fictional form of the novel to represent historical events such as extreme violence. Much narrative endeavour is spent trying to narrativize or 'structure' horror into story. The attempt to write extreme violence, or to recod traumatic cultural memory - the representation of horror - tests both the representational capacity of language and the rationality of subjecthood. Narrative and the re-coding of cultural memory in Moses Isegawa's 'Abyssinian Chronicles' and 'Snakepit' The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here ![]()
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