1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786897403321

Autore

Coundouriotis Eleni

Titolo

The people's right to the novel : war fiction in the postcolony / / Eleni Coundouriotis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-6635-4

0-8232-6235-9

0-8232-6236-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004010POL010000

Disciplina

823

Soggetti

African fiction (English) - History and criticism

African fiction (French) - History and criticism

War in literature

Literature and society - Africa

Africa In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War -- 1. “No Innocents and No Onlookers”: The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau -- 2. Toward a People’s History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War -- 3. “Wondering Who the Heroes Were”: Zimbabwe’s Novels of Atrocity -- 4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights. The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanitarianism, whether in the form of sentimentalism or of human rights law. Both these sensibilities are present in culturally hybrid forms in the African war novel, reflecting its



syncretism as a narrative practice engaged with the colonial and postcolonial history of the continent. The war novel, Coundouriotis argues, stakes claims to collective rights that contrast with the individualism of the bildungsroman tradition. The genre is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00287148

Autore

ALDECOA, Ignacio

Titolo

Cuaderno de Godo / Ignacio Aldecoa ; ilustraciones de Chumy Chúmez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Madrid], : Arion, c1961

Descrizione fisica

56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Disciplina

809.933

Soggetti

ISOLE CANARIE - Descrizioni e viaggi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00262140

Autore

Walter, Eric

Titolo

Identifiability of State Space Models : with applications to transformation systems / Eric Walter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 1982

Descrizione fisica

216 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

70G10 - Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics [MSC 2020]

93-XX - Systems theory; control [MSC 2020]

93B17 - Transformations [MSC 2020]

93B20 - Minimal systems representations [MSC 2020]

93B30 - System identification [MSC 2020]

93C05 - Linear systems in control theory [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia