02556nam 2200385 450 991079274450332120180724085914.01-4985-2919-4(CKB)3710000001086730(MiAaPQ)EBC4816242(EXLCZ)99371000000108673020170316h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAfrican women under fire literary discourses in war and conflict /edited by Pauline Ada UwakwehLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2017.©20171 online resource (217 pages)1-4985-2918-6 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Female, victim, agent: African women in war and conflict. Introduction: exploring African women and the war experience: a critical update / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- At the center, taking charge: disruptive discourse and female agency in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a yellow sun / by Jessie Sagawa -- An attempt at inclusion: reading the war theme in black Zimbabwean women texts / by Tendai Mangena -- The female body as locus for national trauma in the fiction of Yvonne Vera / by Melissa R. Root -- Fanta Nacro's Night of truth: the journey to the end of the night / by P. Julie Papaioannou -- Resilient strategies and reconstruction in Leonora Miano's literary writing / by Paul N. Touré -- Trauma, reintegration, healing: transcending the aftermath of wars and conflicts. Memoir versus fiction: narrating trauma in Girl soldier: a story of hope for Northern Uganda's children and thirty girls / by Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- "I just wanted to forget it all. but it was impossible:" Umutesi and the politics of testimony in surviving the slaughter: the ordeal of a Rwandan refugee in Zaire / by Emilie Diouf -- Victims' narratives versus perpetrators testimonies: understanding violence against women in armed conflicts in Africa / by Moussa Issifou -- Testimony as text: "performative vulnerability" and the limits of legalistic approaches to refugee protection / by Nanjala Nyabola.Women and warAfricaWomen and war303.6082Uwakweh Pauline AdaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792744503321African women under fire3749350UNINA