Sale!

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st Edition by Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba ISBN 1800856873 9781800856875

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $35.00.

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st Edition Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
ISBN(s): 9781800856875, 1800856873
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.18 MB
Year: 2021
Language: english
SKU: EB-43246808 Category: Tag:

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st Edition by Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 1800856873, 9781800856875
Full download The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1800856873 
ISBN 13: 9781800856875
Author: Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa’s postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa’s postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly‐specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide’s nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust.

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Writing Genocide in Africa’s Postcolonies

  • Chapter 1: Genocide in Africa’s Postcolony
    • This chapter likely lays the theoretical groundwork for understanding genocide within the specific context of postcolonial Africa, addressing historical, political, and social factors that contribute to mass atrocities.
  • Chapter 2: The Holocaust and Literary Representation of Postcolonial African Genocides
    • This chapter explores the relationship and comparisons between the literary representation of the Holocaust and that of African genocides, discussing how the former might influence or provide a framework for understanding the latter, while also highlighting the unique aspects of African experiences.

Part II: Artistic Quests for Meaningfulness in the Hells of Postcolonial African Genocides

  • Chapter 3: Genocide as a Tragedy: Soyinka’s Tragic Vision of Genocide in Season of Anomy
    • This chapter analyzes Wole Soyinka’s novel Season of Anomy as a literary response to the Nigerian/Biafran conflict, focusing on its tragic dimensions and the search for meaning within profound suffering.
  • Chapter 4: Writing the “African” Holocaust: The Rwandan Genocide as a Gospel of African Decolonization in Diop’s Murambi, The Book of Bones
    • This chapter examines Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, The Book of Bones, interpreting its portrayal of the Rwandan genocide as a narrative that seeks to understand the genocide within the broader context of African decolonization and its aftermath.
  • Chapter 5: Gendering the Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Adichie’s Feminist Vision of Genocide in Half of a Yellow Sun
    • This chapter focuses on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, specifically analyzing how gender roles, women’s experiences, and feminist perspectives are represented in the context of the Nigerian/Biafran war.
  • Chapter 6: The Rwanda Genocide and the Pornographic Imagination in Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
    • This chapter offers a critical analysis of Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, exploring how the novel engages with difficult themes, including the “pornographic imagination” in its depiction of the Rwandan genocide.

People also search for The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel 1st:

the postcolonial african genocide novel
    
what is post colonial african literature
    
post colonial african literature writers
    
the postcolonial turn
    
the causes of post colonialism in africa

 

Tags: Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Postcolonial, Genocide Novel