TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emenyo̲nu,Ernest
TI  - War in African literature today: a review 
T2  - African literature today
SN  - 9780852555712 (pbk.)
AV  - PL8010 .A4 no. 26
U1  - 809.8896 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - James Currey
KW  - African literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - War in literature
N1  - 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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