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Writing That Breaks Stones : African Child Soldier Narratives /
"This book argues that the dominant literary mode that characterizes memoirs and novels about African child soldiers is ambiguity. It explores memoirs, such as Keitetsi's Child Soldier; Mehari's Heart of Fire; Beah's A Long Way Gone; Jal's and Davies's War Child; Akallo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Writing That Breaks Stones : |b African Child Soldier Narratives / |c Joya Uraizee. |
| 264 | 1 | |a East Lansing : |b Michigan State University Press, |c 2020. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a War narratives and African children -- False combat and adolescent life writing -- Combat as backdrop in young adult life writing -- Narrative uncertainty in child soldier fiction -- Fictional dystopias in child soldier narratives. | |
| 520 | |a "This book argues that the dominant literary mode that characterizes memoirs and novels about African child soldiers is ambiguity. It explores memoirs, such as Keitetsi's Child Soldier; Mehari's Heart of Fire; Beah's A Long Way Gone; Jal's and Davies's War Child; Akallo's and McDonnell's Girl Soldier; and Kamara's and McClelland's A Bite of the Mango, and compares these accounts with novels, such as Kourouma's Allah is Not Obliged; Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog; Iweala's Beasts of No Nation; Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen, and Me; Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; and Abani's Song for Night"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a African literature |y 21st century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ambiguity in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Child soldiers in literature. | |
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