02806nam 22004213a 450 991063394180332120220504190752.097818008573771800857373(CKB)5420000000438978(ScCtBLL)dd777e4d-9ac4-4648-8c47-0fcc4f826c9d(PPN)266441351(EXLCZ)99542000000043897820220504i20212022 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Postcolonial African Genocide Novel : Quests for Meaningfulness /Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba[s.l.] :Liverpool University Press,2021.1 online resource (280 p.)In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa's postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa's postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly‐specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide's nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust.History / Modern / 20th CenturybisacshLiterary Criticism / AfricanbisacshLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturybisacshLiteratureHistory and criticismHistory / Modern / 20th CenturyLiterary Criticism / AfricanLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyLiteratureHistory and criticismAnyaduba Chigbo Arthur1271527ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910633941803321The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel2995281UNINA