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War in African literature today : a review / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African literature today ; 26.Publication details: Oxford : James Currey, 2008.Description: xiv, 176 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780852555712 (pbk.)
  • 0852555717 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.8896 22
LOC classification:
  • PL8010 .A4 no. 26
Partial contents:
War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / Ernest N. Emenyanu -- The muted Index of war in African literature & society / Chimalum Nwankwo -- 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's Theatre of war / Christine Matzke -- Sacrifice & the contestation of Identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at dawn / Clement A. Okafor -- Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra War in select stories from The insider: stories of war & peace from Nigeria / Iniobong I. Uko -- Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Oike Machiko -- Politics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature / Sophie Obiajulu Ogwude -- Problems of representing the Zimbabwean War of Liberation in Mutasa's The contact, Samupindi's Pawns & Vera's The stone virgins / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- The need to go further? : dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni / Zoe Norridge -- History, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: my story / Isidore Diala -- Of the versification of pain: Nigerian Civil War poetry / Ogaga Okuyade.
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General Collection Main Campus Library General Stacks PL 8010 .E9 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20095115
General Collection Main Campus Library General Stacks PL 8010 .E9 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20095116

Includes bibliographical references and index.

War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / Ernest N. Emenyanu -- The muted Index of war in African literature & society / Chimalum Nwankwo -- 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's Theatre of war / Christine Matzke -- Sacrifice & the contestation of Identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at dawn / Clement A. Okafor -- Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra War in select stories from The insider: stories of war & peace from Nigeria / Iniobong I. Uko -- Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Oike Machiko -- Politics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature / Sophie Obiajulu Ogwude -- Problems of representing the Zimbabwean War of Liberation in Mutasa's The contact, Samupindi's Pawns & Vera's The stone virgins / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- The need to go further? : dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni / Zoe Norridge -- History, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: my story / Isidore Diala -- Of the versification of pain: Nigerian Civil War poetry / Ogaga Okuyade.

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