| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 199 pages) |
| Contents |
Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by H. Nanjala Nyabola |
| Summary |
This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2019) |
| Subject |
African literature (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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War in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Refugees in literature.
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Women -- Violence against -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Women and war -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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African literature (French) -- Women authors
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African literature -- Women authors
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Refugees in literature
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War in literature
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Women and war
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Women in literature
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Women -- Violence against
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Uwakweh, Pauline Ada, editor
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| LC no. |
2017018995 |
| ISBN |
9781498529198 |
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1498529194 |
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