Writing That Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives

Author:   Joya Uraizee
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
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9781611863758


Pages:   149
Publication Date:   01 October 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Joya Uraizee
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.178kg
ISBN:  

9781611863758


ISBN 10:   1611863759
Pages:   149
Publication Date:   01 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents 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 Index

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"""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


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JOYA 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.

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