LEADER 04166nam 2200901 450 001 9910820595303321 005 20231206223004.0 010 $a0-8232-6635-4 010 $a0-8232-6235-9 010 $a0-8232-6236-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823262359 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216401 035 $a(EBL)3239919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001292721 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11765812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292721 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11303942 035 $a(PQKB)10463279 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111253 035 $a(OCoLC)889302791 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37916 035 $a(DE-B1597)554993 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823262359 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239919 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904484 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL671363 035 $a(OCoLC)898120691 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1884038 035 $a(OCoLC)958574803 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239919 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1884038 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216401 100 $a20140811h20142014 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe people's right to the novel $ewar fiction in the postcolony /$fEleni Coundouriotis 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-40081-4 311 0 $a0-8232-6233-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War --$t1. ?No Innocents and No Onlookers?: The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau --$t2. Toward a People?s History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War --$t3. ?Wondering Who the Heroes Were?: Zimbabwe?s Novels of Atrocity --$t4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAfrican fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWar in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 610 $aAfrica. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aWar novel. 610 $agender. 610 $ahumanitarianism. 610 $anaturalism. 610 $apeople's history. 610 $apostcolonial studies. 610 $awar. 610 $aworld novel. 615 0$aAfrican fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWar in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society 676 $a823 686 $aLIT004010$aPOL010000$2bisacsh 700 $aCoundouriotis$b Eleni$0623351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820595303321 996 $aThe people's right to the novel$94092666 997 $aUNINA