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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: people's right to the novel
    sub title: war fiction in the postcolony
  name:
    name part: Coundouriotis, Eleni
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 336 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The ambition of this study is shaped by two somewhat contradictory impulses. The first is to use the novel of war in Africa as a case study to say something broader and bigger about the war novel as a genre across literary traditions and reaching backwards and forwards in history. The second is to deepen our understanding of the novel in Africa by doing a literary history of the genre of the war novel that has been overlooked in relation to the more widely read and canonized Bildungsroman form. Pulling in two different directions, one towards a more global context, and the other inwards, to the specificities of a particular tradition, this book, moreover, stresses the convergence of two sensibilities: the naturalist aesthetic and a humanitarian ethos which takes up the responsibility for the suffering of others. 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 narration of war broadly evokes some form of these two sensibilities of naturalism and humanitarianism, gesturing towards a universal statement about the experience of war. This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre's distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent while arguing that the war novel is a form of people's history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed"--
  abstract: "This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre's distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people's history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War -- 1. "No Innocents and No Onlookers": The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau -- 2. Toward a People's History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War -- 3. "Wondering Who the Heroes Were": Zimbabwe's Novels of Atrocity -- 4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
  note: Eleni Coundouriotis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: African fiction (English)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: African fiction (French)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: War in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / African
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: African fiction (English)
  subject:
    topic: African fiction (French)
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
  subject:
    topic: War in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  classification: PR9344 .C68 2014
  classification: 823
  classification: LIT004010 POL010000
  identifier: 9780823262335 (hardback)
  identifier: 0823262332 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014005590
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140509
    record change date: 20151206123554.0
    record identifier: in00003490945
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng