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Informationen zum Autor By Pauline Ada Uwakweh - Foreword by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo - Contributions by E?milie Diouf; Moussa Issifou; Tendai Mangena; Nanjala Nyabola; Julie Papaioannou; Melissa R. Root; Jessie Sagawa; Paul N. Touré and Pauline Ada Uwakweh Klappentext This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Zusammenfassung This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women! war! and conflict in Africa. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
