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04168aam a2200505 i 4500 001 9E293A68AB7211E4A1AC46C0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150203010132 008 140509s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014005590 020 $a 0823262332 (hardback) 020 $a 9780823262335 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)874223658 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d IUL $d COO $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a PR9344 $b .C68 2014 082 00 $a 823 $2 23 084 $a POL010000 $a POL010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Coundouriotis, Eleni, $e author. 245 14 $a The people's right to the novel : $b war fiction in the postcolony / $c Eleni Coundouriotis. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Fordham University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xi, 336 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a African fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African fiction (French) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a War in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Africa. 651 0 $a Africa $x In literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / African. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799780 650 7 $a African fiction (French) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799785 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a War in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170505 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180201030344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9E293A68AB7211E4A1AC46C0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search