This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict.
This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict.
By Pauline Ada Uwakweh - Contributions by E?milie Diouf; Moussa Issifou; Tendai Mangena; Nanjala Nyabola; Julie Papaioannou; Melissa R. Root; Jessie Sagawa; Paul N. Touré and Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Acknowledgments Part I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and Conflict Introduction: Exploring African Women and the War Experience-A Critical Update, by Pauline Ada Uwakweh Chapter 1: At the Center, Taking Charge: Disruptive Discourse and Female Agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, by Jessie Sagawa Chapter 2: An Attempt at Inclusion: Reading the War Theme in Black Zimbabwean Women Texts, by Tendai Mangena Chapter 3: The Female Body as Locus for National Trauma in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera, by Melissa R. Root Chapter 4: Fanta Nacro's Night of Truth: the Journey to the End of the Night, by P. Julie Papaioannou Chapter 5: Resilient Strategies and Reconstruction in Leonora Miano's Literary Writing, by Paul N. Touré Part II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and Conflicts Chapter 6: Memoir versus Fiction: Narrating Trauma in Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children and Thirty Girls, by Pauline Ada Uwakweh Chapter 7: "I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible:" Umutesi and the Politics of Testimony in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire, by Emilie Diouf Chapter 8: Victims' Narratives versus Perpetrators Testimonies: Understanding Violence against Women in Armed Conflicts in Africa, by Moussa Issifou Chapter 9: Testimony as Text: "Performative Vulnerability" and the Limits of Legalistic Approaches to Refugee Protection, by Nanjala Nyabola About the Contributors
Foreword Acknowledgments Part I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and Conflict Introduction: Exploring African Women and the War Experience-A Critical Update, by Pauline Ada Uwakweh Chapter 1: At the Center, Taking Charge: Disruptive Discourse and Female Agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, by Jessie Sagawa Chapter 2: An Attempt at Inclusion: Reading the War Theme in Black Zimbabwean Women Texts, by Tendai Mangena Chapter 3: The Female Body as Locus for National Trauma in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera, by Melissa R. Root Chapter 4: Fanta Nacro's Night of Truth: the Journey to the End of the Night, by P. Julie Papaioannou Chapter 5: Resilient Strategies and Reconstruction in Leonora Miano's Literary Writing, by Paul N. Touré Part II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and Conflicts Chapter 6: Memoir versus Fiction: Narrating Trauma in Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children and Thirty Girls, by Pauline Ada Uwakweh Chapter 7: "I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible:" Umutesi and the Politics of Testimony in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire, by Emilie Diouf Chapter 8: Victims' Narratives versus Perpetrators Testimonies: Understanding Violence against Women in Armed Conflicts in Africa, by Moussa Issifou Chapter 9: Testimony as Text: "Performative Vulnerability" and the Limits of Legalistic Approaches to Refugee Protection, by Nanjala Nyabola About the Contributors
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