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War in African literature today : a review
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- Creator
- editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Oxford] : James Currey, 2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 176 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813144, 1846156084, 9789780813147, 9780852555712, 9781846156083, 1282621351, 0852555717, 9786612621352
- OCLC
- ocn243545097, ocn647767973
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- The muted index of war in African literature & society / Chimalum Nwankwo -- 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's theatre of war / Christine Matzke -- Sacrifice & contestation of identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn / Clement A. Okafor -- Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra war in select stories in The Insider: Stories of War & Peace from Nigeria / Iniobong I. Uko -- Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra / Oike Machiko -- Politics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature / Sophie Obiajulu Ogwude -- Problems of representing the Zimbabwean war of liberation in Mutasa's The Contract, Samupindi's Pawns & Vera's The Stone Virgins / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- The need to go further? Dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni / Zoe Norridge -- History, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: My Story / Isidore Diala -- Of the versification of pain: Nigerian Civil War poetry / Ogaga Okuyade