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| contents | <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract</span></strong></p> <p><span lang="EN-GB">This work presents a comparative feminist analysis of Chris Abani’s <em>Becoming Abigail</em> (2006) and Chika Unigwe’s <em>On Black Sisters' Street</em> (2009), arguing that their distinct narrative strategies constitute complementary and necessary modes of critiquing the transnational trafficking of African girls. It posits that Abani’s fragmented, lyrical novella performs a <em>poetics of interior collapse</em>, immersing the reader in the disintegrating psyche of a single victim to frame exploitation as the culmination of intimate, familial betrayals. In contrast, Unigwe’s polyphonic novel constructs a <em>sociology of collective endurance</em>, mapping the deliberate economic and transnational architecture of the trade to portray trafficking as a systemic, capitalist machinery. Through a sustained examination of narrative form, bodily agency, and systems of power, this study demonstrates that a dialectical reading of these texts, one focused on psychological fragmentation and the other on socio-economic chorus, provides a more holistic literary understanding than either can offer alone. The comparison reveals the crisis as both a profound, soul-destroying personal trauma and a calculated function of global patriarchal capital, advocating for a critical approach that holds the interior and the systemic in constitutive tension.</span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Dialectics of Trauma in Girl-Child Trafficking in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street Usoro, Rebecca Okon transnational trafficking sex slavery trauma familial betrayal <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract</span></strong></p> <p><span lang="EN-GB">This work presents a comparative feminist analysis of Chris Abani’s <em>Becoming Abigail</em> (2006) and Chika Unigwe’s <em>On Black Sisters' Street</em> (2009), arguing that their distinct narrative strategies constitute complementary and necessary modes of critiquing the transnational trafficking of African girls. It posits that Abani’s fragmented, lyrical novella performs a <em>poetics of interior collapse</em>, immersing the reader in the disintegrating psyche of a single victim to frame exploitation as the culmination of intimate, familial betrayals. In contrast, Unigwe’s polyphonic novel constructs a <em>sociology of collective endurance</em>, mapping the deliberate economic and transnational architecture of the trade to portray trafficking as a systemic, capitalist machinery. Through a sustained examination of narrative form, bodily agency, and systems of power, this study demonstrates that a dialectical reading of these texts, one focused on psychological fragmentation and the other on socio-economic chorus, provides a more holistic literary understanding than either can offer alone. The comparison reveals the crisis as both a profound, soul-destroying personal trauma and a calculated function of global patriarchal capital, advocating for a critical approach that holds the interior and the systemic in constitutive tension.</span></p> |
| title | Dialectics of Trauma in Girl-Child Trafficking in Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street |
| topic | transnational trafficking sex slavery trauma familial betrayal |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18092477 |