04166nam 2200901 450 991078689740332120231206223004.00-8232-6635-40-8232-6235-90-8232-6236-710.1515/9780823262359(CKB)3710000000216401(EBL)3239919(SSID)ssj0001292721(PQKBManifestationID)11765812(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292721(PQKBWorkID)11303942(PQKB)10463279(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111253(OCoLC)889302791(MdBmJHUP)muse37916(DE-B1597)554993(DE-B1597)9780823262359(Au-PeEL)EBL3239919(CaPaEBR)ebr10904484(CaONFJC)MIL671363(OCoLC)898120691(Au-PeEL)EBL1884038(OCoLC)958574803(MiAaPQ)EBC3239919(MiAaPQ)EBC1884038(EXLCZ)99371000000021640120140811h20142014 uy 1engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe people's right to the novel war fiction in the postcolony /Eleni CoundouriotisFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (350 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-40081-4 0-8232-6233-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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.African fiction (English)History and criticismAfrican fiction (French)History and criticismWar in literatureLiterature and societyAfricaAfricaIn literatureAfrica.Human Rights.War novel.gender.humanitarianism.naturalism.people's history.postcolonial studies.war.world novel.African fiction (English)History and criticism.African fiction (French)History and criticism.War in literature.Literature and society823LIT004010POL010000bisacshCoundouriotis Eleni623351MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786897403321The people's right to the novel3839768UNINA