TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uraizee,Joya F.
TI  - Writing that breaks stones: African child soldier narratives 
SN  - 9781609176495
AV  - PL8010 .W758 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - African literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Ambiguity in literature
KW  - Child soldiers in literature
KW  - Child soldiers
KW  - Africa
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; War narratives and African children --; False combat and adolescent life writing --; Combat as backdrop in young adult life writing --; Narrative uncertainty in child soldier fiction --; Fictional dystopias in child soldier narratives; 2; b
N2  - "This book argues that the dominant literary mode that characterizes memoirs and novels about African child soldiers is ambiguity. It explores memoirs, such as Keitetsi's Child Soldier; Mehari's Heart of Fire; Beah's A Long Way Gone; Jal's and Davies's War Child; Akallo's and McDonnell's Girl Soldier; and Kamara's and McClelland's A Bite of the Mango, and compares these accounts with novels, such as Kourouma's Allah is Not Obliged; Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog; Iweala's Beasts of No Nation; Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen, and Me; Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun; and Abani's Song for Night"--
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