War in African literature today : a review /
editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu.
- Oxford : James Currey, 2008.
- xiv, 176 p. ; 22 cm.
- African literature today ; 26 .
- African literature today ; 26. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / The muted Index of war in African literature & society / 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's Theatre of war / Sacrifice & the contestation of Identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at dawn / Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra War in select stories from The insider: stories of war & peace from Nigeria / Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Politics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature / Problems of representing the Zimbabwean War of Liberation in Mutasa's The contact, Samupindi's Pawns & Vera's The stone virgins / The need to go further? : dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni / History, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: my story / Of the versification of pain: Nigerian Civil War poetry / Ernest N. Emenyanu -- Chimalum Nwankwo -- Christine Matzke -- Clement A. Okafor -- Iniobong I. Uko -- Oike Machiko -- Sophie Obiajulu Ogwude -- Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- Zoe Norridge -- Isidore Diala -- Ogaga Okuyade.
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African literature--History and criticism.--21st century African literature--History and criticism.--20th century War in literature.