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African Women under Fire : Literary Discourses in War and Conflict.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498529198
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African Women under FireOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and Conflict -- Introduction -- Chapter One: At the Center, Taking Charge -- Chapter Two: An Attempt at Inclusion -- Chapter Three: The Female Body as Locus for National Trauma in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera -- Chapter Four: Fanta Nacro's Night of Truth -- Chapter Five: Resilient Strategies and Emotional Memories in Leonora Miano's Literary Writing -- II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and Conflicts -- Chapter Six: Memoir versus Fiction -- Chapter Seven: "I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible" -- Chapter Eight: Victims' Narratives versus Perpetrators' Testimonies -- Chapter Nine: Testimony as Text -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and Conflict -- Introduction -- Chapter One: At the Center, Taking Charge -- Chapter Two: An Attempt at Inclusion -- Chapter Three: The Female Body as Locus for National Trauma in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera -- Chapter Four: Fanta Nacro's Night of Truth -- Chapter Five: Resilient Strategies and Emotional Memories in Leonora Miano's Literary Writing -- II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and Conflicts -- Chapter Six: Memoir versus Fiction -- Chapter Seven: "I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible" -- Chapter Eight: Victims' Narratives versus Perpetrators' Testimonies -- Chapter Nine: Testimony as Text -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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