War in African literature today: a review
War in African literature today: a review
War in African literature today: a review
War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies / Ernest N. Emenyonu. - The muted index of war in African literature & society / Chimalum Nwankwo. - 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's theatre of war / Christine Matzke. - Sacrifice & contestation of…
War in African literature today: a review
War in African literature today: a review
This issue of African Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The theoretical question is whether the fictionalized representatio…
War in African literature today: a review
Frontcover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- EDITORIAL ARTICLE. Leaving Home/ Returning Home: Migration & Contemporary African Literature -- ARTICLES -- Alienation & Disorientation in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Wait No Longer?: The Temporality of Return in Ayi Kwei Arma…
This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Afri…