African Women Under Fire (eBook)

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

Pauline Ada Uwakweh (Autor)

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2017
216 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2919-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Part I: Female, Victim, Agent: African Women in War and ConflictPauline Ada UwakwehDestination Biafra and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, by Jessie SagawaTendai MangenaMelissa R. RootP. Julie PapaioannouPaul N. TouréPart II: Trauma, Reintegration, Healing: Transcending the Aftermath of Wars and ConflictsGirl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children and Thirty Girls, by Pauline Ada UwakwehSurviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire, by Emilie DioufMoussa IssifouNanjala NyabolaAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2017
• Co-Autor: Paul N. Toure, Pauline Ada Uwakweh, Emilie Diouf, Moussa Issifou, Tendai Mangena, Nanjala Nyabola, Julie Papaioannou, Melissa R. Root, Jessie Sagawa
• Vorwort: Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African literature • African Literature and War • African refugees • African Studies • African women • African Women Writers • postcolonial fiction • rape survivors • Refugees • Trauma Representation • War and Armed Conflict • war fiction • War in Film • women in film
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2919-4 / 1498529194
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2919-8 / 9781498529198