Gender, disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice Lamwaka

This chapter examines the short fiction of Acholi Ugandan author Beatrice Lamwaka which shows her desire to render trauma as a provocatively gendered agenda. Her uneven yet intriguing collection Butterfly Dreams and Other Stories (2017) illustrates that Lamwaka hopes to recuperate historically invisibilised regional minorities and important but marginalised issues, restoring complexity to signifiers such as “femaleness”, “civil war”, and “identity”.