1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002959200203316

Autore

ANDREOTTI, Giulio

Titolo

De Gasperi / Giulio Andreotti ; con una nota di Sergio Valzania

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo, : Sellerio, 2006

ISBN

88-389-2130-X

Descrizione fisica

165 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Alle 8 della sera ; 4

Disciplina

945.092092

Soggetti

De Gasperi, Alcide

Collocazione

X.3.B. 4359

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820595303321

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.