Eleni Coundouriotis 
The People’s Right to the Novel [EPUB ebook] 
War Fiction in the Postcolony

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This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.
The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanitarianism, whether in the form of sentimentalism or of human rights law. Both these sensibilities are present in culturally hybrid forms in the African war novel, reflecting its syncretism as a narrative practice engaged with the colonial and postcolonial history of the continent.
The war novel, Coundouriotis argues, stakes claims to collective rights that contrast with the individualism of the bildungsroman tradition. The genre is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.

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Eleni Coundouriotis is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9780823262342 ● Taille du fichier 5.7 MB ● Maison d’édition Fordham University Press ● Lieu New York ● Pays US ● Publié 2014 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 4848316 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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