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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joya UraizeePublisher: Michigan State University Press Imprint: Michigan State University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.178kg ISBN: 9781611863758ISBN 10: 1611863759 Pages: 149 Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. War Narratives and African Children Chapter 2. False Combat and Adolescent Life Writing Chapter 3. Combat as Backdrop in Young Adult Life Writing Chapter 4. Narrative Uncertainty in Child Soldier Fiction Chapter 5. Fictional Dystopias in Child Soldier Narratives Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""This is the book on child soldier narratives that we have been waiting for. Engaged, nuanced, and non-sentimental, Joya Uraizee's book allows for the narrative uncertainty that makes the topic complex and compelling. Writing That Breaks Stones draws from a substantial and varied corpus and will be the go-to book on the subject for some time."" --ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS, Professor, Department of English, University of Connecticut, and author of The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony" ""This is the book on child soldier narratives that we have been waiting for. Engaged, nuanced, and non-sentimental, Joya Uraizee's book allows for the narrative uncertainty that makes the topic complex and compelling. Writing That Breaks Stones draws from a substantial and varied corpus and will be the go-to book on the subject for some time."" --ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS, Professor, Department of English, University of Connecticut, and author of The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony This is the book on child soldier narratives that we have been waiting for. Engaged, nuanced, and non-sentimental, Joya Uraizee's book allows for the narrative uncertainty that makes the topic complex and compelling. Writing That Breaks Stones draws from a substantial and varied corpus and will be the go-to book on the subject for some time. --ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS, Professor, Department of English, University of Connecticut, and author of The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony Author InformationJOYA URAIZEE is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of English at Saint Louis University in Missouri. She is the author of This Is No Place for a Woman: Nadine Gordimer, Nayantara Sahgal, Buchi Emecheta and the Politics of Gender and In the Jaws of the Leviathan: Genocide Fiction and Film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |