African Women Under Fire

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

AvPauline Ada Uwakweh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-16
Mått:158 x 239 x 19 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Azodo,AdaUzoamaka
ISBN:9781498529181

Utforska kategorier

Krigsvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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Pauline Ada Uwakweh is associate professor of literature at North Carolina A &T State University.

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Pauline Uwakweh’s edited volume brings out a fresh and equally significant perspective that focuses upon the much-needed African women’s literary responses to wars and armed conflicts. . . Pauline Uwakweh beautifully gives a critique of a patriarchy and especially literary patriarchy, while bringing war and gender issues under study. Her book demonstrates how women’s voices are missing in war literature and what can be done to overcome this lacuna. Women under Fire is certainly going to be an authentic source on literary discourse on war and conflict besides being a credible work on African literary criticism in the gender arena. Given its thick description the work is too provoking for future researchers not to go further and deeper into the themes touched upon. Throughout the chapters there been an intellectual engagement with various socio-literary themes bringing out various war realities especially the gendered relations and power play between them. This work can indeed be called Pauline Uwakweh’s and her fellow coauthors’ labor of love.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordAcknowledgmentsPart I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and ConflictIntroduction: Exploring African Women and the War Experience—A Critical Update, by Pauline Ada UwakwehChapter 1: At the Center, Taking Charge: Disruptive Discourse and Female Agency in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, by Jessie SagawaChapter 2: An Attempt at Inclusion: Reading the War Theme in Black Zimbabwean Women Texts, by Tendai MangenaChapter 3: The Female Body as Locus for National Trauma in the Fiction of Yvonne Vera, by Melissa R. RootChapter 4: Fanta Nacro’s Night of Truth: the Journey to the End of the Night, by P. Julie PapaioannouChapter 5: Resilient Strategies and Reconstruction in Leonora Miano’s Literary Writing, by Paul N. TouréPart II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and ConflictsChapter 6: Memoir versus Fiction: Narrating Trauma in Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children and Thirty Girls, by Pauline Ada UwakwehChapter 7: “I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible:” Umutesi and the Politics of Testimony in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire, by Emilie DioufChapter 8: Victims’ Narratives versus Perpetrators Testimonies: Understanding Violence against Women in Armed Conflicts in Africa, by Moussa IssifouChapter 9: Testimony as Text: “Performative Vulnerability” and the Limits of Legalistic Approaches to Refugee Protection, by Nanjala NyabolaAbout the Contributors