LEADER 02806nam 22004213a 450 001 9910633941803321 005 20220504190752.0 010 $a9781800857377 010 $a1800857373 035 $a(CKB)5420000000438978 035 $a(ScCtBLL)dd777e4d-9ac4-4648-8c47-0fcc4f826c9d 035 $a(PPN)266441351 035 $a(EXLCZ)995420000000438978 100 $a20220504i20212022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Postcolonial African Genocide Novel : $eQuests for Meaningfulness /$fChigbo Arthur Anyaduba 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aHistory / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / African$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aHistory / Modern / 20th Century 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / African 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aAnyaduba$b Chigbo Arthur$01271527 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633941803321 996 $aThe Postcolonial African Genocide Novel$92995281 997 $aUNINA