Alt 26 War in African Literature Today

Herausgeber: Emenyonu, Ernest N

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Produktbeschreibung

How have African writers addressed the issue of war and its impact across the continent?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 189
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780852555712
• ISBN-10: 0852555717
• Artikelnr.: 26055998

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial article. War in African literature: literary harvests, human
tragedies - Ernest N. Emenyonu The muted index of war in African literature
& society - Chimalum Nwankwo 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged
Tesfai's theatre of war - Christine Matzke Sacrifice & contestation of
identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn - Clement Okafor Of war &
madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra war in select
stories from The Insider:Stories of War & Peace from Nigeria - Iniobong I.
Uko Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi
Emecheta's Destination Biafra - Oike Machiko Politics & human rights in
non-fiction prison literature - Sophia O. Ogwude Problems of representing
the Zimbabwean war of liberation in Mutasa's The Contract, Samupinda's
Pawns & Vera's The Stone Virgins - Maurice Taonezvi Vambe The need to go
further? Dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller &
Alexander Kanengoni - Zoe Norridge History, memoir & a soldier's
conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: My Story - Isidore Diala Of
the versification of pain: Nigerian civil war poetry - Ogaga Okuyade
Reviews - James Gibbs