LEADER 04280cam a2200541 i 4500001 283028 005 20240621233244.0 006 m o d 007 cr |||---a|||| 008 220216s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 015 GBC1D2444 |2bnb 020 1800856873 020 9781800856875 035 (OCoLC)on1240771364 035 283028 043 f------ 049 LHMA 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dCDX |dNYP |dOCLCO |dJG0 |dLHM 050 4 PN56.3.A39 |bA59 2021 100 1 Anyaduba, Chigbo Arthur, |eauthor. 245 14 The postcolonial African genocide novel : |bquests for meaningfulness / |cChigbo Arthur Anyaduba. 264 1 Liverpool : |bLiverpool University Press, |c2021. 300 vii, 269 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 347 text file |2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index. 505 0 Acknowledgements--Introduction. Part I: Writing Genocide in Africa's Postcolonies: 1. Genocide in Africa's Postcolony--2. The Holocaust and Literary Representation of Postcolonial African Genocides. Part 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 Anatomy--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. Epilogue--Bibliography--Index. 520 "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."--Publisher description. 530 Electronic version(s) available online. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Genocide in literature. 650 0 Violence in literature. 650 0 Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 African fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 African fiction |y21st century |xHistory and criticism. 651 0 Africa |xIn literature. 650 7 Fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00923709 650 7 Genocide in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00940224 650 7 Literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 Postcolonialism in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01073035 651 7 Africa. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01239509 648 7 1900-2099 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available |uhttps://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800857377 |zOpen access from Liverpool University Press 852 0 |bscstacks |hPN56.3.A39 |iA59 2021 852 |bebook