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

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"This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre's distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people's history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coundouriotis, Eleni (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
Literature and society > Africa.
War in literature.
African fiction (French) > History and criticism.
African fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Africa > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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