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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coundouriotis, Eleni (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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.