ALT 26 War in African Literature Today. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ogaga Okuyade, Oike Machiko, Sophia O. Ogwude, Zoe Norridge, Chimalum Nwankwo, Christine Matzke, Clement Okafor, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Iniobong I. Uko, Isidore Diala, James Gibbs, Maurice Taonezvi Vambe.
• Editors: Emenyonu, Ernest N
• Other Names: Okuyade, Ogaga contributor.; Machiko, Oike contributor.; Ogwude, Sophia O contributor.; Norridge, Zoë contributor.; Nwankwo, Chimalum contributor.; Matzke, Christine contributor.; Okafor, Clement contributor.; Emenyonu, Ernest N contributor.; Uko, Iniobong I contributor.; Diala, Isidore contributor.; Gibbs, James (James Morel) contributor.; Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi contributor.
• Contents: Editorial article. 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 Okafor; Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra war in select stories from 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 - Sophia O. Ogwude; Problems of representing the Zimbabwean war of liberation in Mutasa's The Contract, Samupinda'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; Reviews - James Gibbs
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (189 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846156083; 1846156084
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