The People's Right to the Novel : War Fiction in the Postcolony /
"The ambition of this study is shaped by two somewhat contradictory impulses. The first is to use the novel of war in Africa as a case study to say something broader and bigger about the war novel as a genre across literary traditions and reaching backwards and forwards in history. The second i...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Naturalism, humanitarianism, and the fiction of war
- 1. "No innocents and no onlookers" : the uses of the past in the novels of Mau Mau
- 2. Toward a people's history : the novels of the Nigerian Civil War
- 3. "Wondering who the heroes were" : Zimbabwe's novels of atrocity
- 4. Contesting the new authenticity : contemporary war fiction in Africa
- Afterword.