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Writing that breaks stones : African child soldier narratives / Joya Uraizee.

By: Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2020]Description: xx, 129 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611863758
  • 9781609176495
  • 9781628954104
  • 9781628964110
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.933581  23 U72
Contents:
War narratives and African children -- False combat and adolescent life writing -- Combat as backdrop in young adult life writing -- Narrative uncertainty in child soldier fiction -- Fictional dystopias in child soldier narratives.
Summary: "This book argues that the dominant literary mode that characterizes memoirs and novels about African child soldiers is ambiguity. It explores memoirs, such as Keitetsi's Child Soldier; Mehari's Heart of Fire; Beah's A Long Way Gone; Jal's and Davies's War Child; Akallo's and McDonnell's Girl Soldier; and Kamara's and McClelland's A Bite of the Mango, and compares these accounts with novels, such as Kourouma's Allah is Not Obliged; Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog; Iweala's Beasts of No Nation; Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen, and Me; Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; and Abani's Song for Night"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-123) and index.

War narratives and African children -- False combat and adolescent life writing -- Combat as backdrop in young adult life writing -- Narrative uncertainty in child soldier fiction -- Fictional dystopias in child soldier narratives.

"This book argues that the dominant literary mode that characterizes memoirs and novels about African child soldiers is ambiguity. It explores memoirs, such as Keitetsi's Child Soldier; Mehari's Heart of Fire; Beah's A Long Way Gone; Jal's and Davies's War Child; Akallo's and McDonnell's Girl Soldier; and Kamara's and McClelland's A Bite of the Mango, and compares these accounts with novels, such as Kourouma's Allah is Not Obliged; Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog; Iweala's Beasts of No Nation; Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen, and Me; Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; and Abani's Song for Night"-- Provided by publisher.