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Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives

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Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives

作者:Adesola 
出版社:Lexington Books
出版日期:2024-09-15
語言:英文   規格:精裝 / 242頁 / 普通級/ 初版
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圖書名稱:Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives

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In Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives, Ademola Adesola examines the dominant factors that writers privilege in their portrayals of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa. In his textual-interpretive analyses of selected novels in the African child soldier genre, Adesola contends that critical discussions of African child soldier literature have depended on the interpretive frameworks supplied by Western humanitarian discourses which oversimplify and de-historicize experiences of war in Africa. The author argues that such reductive decontextualization of war realities serve to champion a narrow vision of war in African contexts centered on a moral and humanitarian urge for Western intervention. Regardless of whether the casus belli legitimating those wars are genuine or not, those conflicts (and children’s involvement in them) are understood within the same racist colonial and ethnocentric stereotypes about Africa that have been privileged in Western thought and the Western moral-political imagination for centuries. Thus, in studying African child soldier narratives, this book provides an alternative reading of novels whose settings feature African ethnopolitical conflicts - such as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria - notable for their exploitation of children for military ends. The author maintains that these works are significant in the varying ways they reify and challenge the Western ideas of "child" and "childhood," as well as privilege child soldiers as social actors whose intricate makeups disavow being simply understood as innocent victims or irredeemable perpetrators of atrocities.

 

作者簡介

Ademola Adesola is assistant professor in the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures at Mount Royal University, Canada.

 

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  • ISBN:9781666954494
  • 規格:精裝 / 242頁 / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
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