The postcolonial African genocide novel : quests for meaningfulness / Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anyaduba, Chigbo Arthur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Writing Genocide in Africa's Postcolonies

1. Genocide in Africa's Postcolony

2. The Holocaust and Literary Representation of Postcolonial African Genocides

pt. II Artistic Quests for Meaningfulness in the Hells of Postcolonial African Genocides

3. Genocide as a Tragedy: Soyinka's Tragic Vision of Genocide in Season of Anomy

4. Writing the "African" Holocaust: The Rwandan Genocide as a Gospel of African Decolonization in Diop's Murambi, The Book of Bones

5. Gendering the Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Adichie's Feminist Vision of Genocide in Half of a Yellow Sun

6. The Rwanda Genocide and the Pornographic Imagination in Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.

ISBN:

1800856873

9781800856875

OCLC:

1240771364