The People's Right to the Novel : War Fiction in the Postcolony /

Show other versions (3)

"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...

Full description

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.
Subjects:
War in literature.
Literature and society.
Literature.
African fiction (French)
African fiction (English)
FICTION > General.
Litterature et societe > Afrique.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Roman africain (français) > Histoire et critique.
Roman africain (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Africa.
African fiction (French) > History and criticism.
African fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Africa.
Afrique > Dans la litterature.
Africa > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

Similar Items