LEADER 02556nam 2200385 450 001 9910792744503321 005 20180724085914.0 010 $a1-4985-2919-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001086730 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4816242 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001086730 100 $a20170316h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aAfrican women under fire $eliterary discourses in war and conflict /$fedited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 311 $a1-4985-2918-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aFemale, 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. Toure? -- 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. 606 $aWomen and war$zAfrica 615 0$aWomen and war 676 $a303.6082 702 $aUwakweh$b Pauline Ada 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792744503321 996 $aAfrican women under fire$93749350 997 $aUNINA