LEADER 02755nam 22004334u 450 001 9911061746403321 005 20250519110025.0 024 7 $a10.3828/9781800856875 035 $a(CKB)5450000000454819 035 $a(Liverpool University Press)10.3828/9781800856875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32077169 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32077169 035 $a(OCoLC)1306633730 035 $a(EXLCZ)995450000000454819 100 $a20211001h2021|||| f|| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mam|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcolonial African Genocide Novel 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$cLiverpool University Press$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (280pp.;) 311 08$a1-80085-687-3 330 $aAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa's postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa's postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly?specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide's nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust. 610 00$aThe Holocaust 610 00$aPostcolonial African Genocide Novel 610 00$aBiafra-Nigeria War 610 00$aRwanda Genocide 676 $a809.393586032 700 $aAnyaduba$b Chigbo Arthur$4aut$01271527 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911061746403321 996 $aPostcolonial African Genocide Novel$94536969 997 $aUNINA