The people's right to the novel : war fiction in the postcolony /

"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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Coundouriotis, Eleni (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African fiction (English) > History and criticism. African fiction (French) > History and criticism. War in literature. Literature and society > Africa. Africa > In literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / African. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. African fiction (English) African fiction (French) Literature. Literature and society. Africa. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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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.