Of the Versification of Pain: Nigerian Civil War Poetry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors x
4. Editorial Article
5. War in African Literature: Literary Harvests, Human Tragedies xi
6. Articles
7. The Muted Index of War in African Literature & Society 1
8. ‘Life in the Camp of the Enemy’ Alemseged Tesfai’s Theatre of War 15
9. Sacrifice & the Contestation of Identity in Chukwuemeka Ike’s Sunset at Dawn 33
10. Of War & Madness: A Symbolic Transmutation of the Nigeria–Biafra War in Select Stories from The Insider: Stories of War & Peace from Nigeria 49
11. Becoming a Feminist Writer: Representations of the Subaltern in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra 60
12. Politics & Human Rights in Non-Fiction Prison Literature 71
13. Problems of Representing the Zimbabwean War of Liberation in Mutasa’s The Contact, Samupindi’s Pawns & Vera’s The Stone Virgins 87
14. The Need to Go Further? Dedication & Distance in the War Narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni 103
15. History, Memoir & a Soldier’s Conscience Philip Efiong’s Nigeria & Biafra: My Story 112
16. Of the Versification of Pain: Nigerian Civil War Poetry 128
17. Reviews
18. Aniceti Kitereza, Mr. Myombekere & his Wife Bugonoka, their Son Ntulanalwo & Daughter Buliwhali: The Story of an Ancient African Community. 137
19. Ahmadou Kourouma, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote, Translated from the French by Frank Wynne 139
20. Daniel Mengara, Mema 141
21. Shimmer Chinodya, Chairman of Fools 142
22. Chris Abani, Graceland 144
23. Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation 145
24. Woeli A. Dekutsey & John Sackey (eds), An Anthology of Contemporary Ghanaian Poems 148
25. Tayo Olafioye, A Stroke of Hope 150
26. Lola Shoneyin, So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg 154
27. Es’kia Mphahlele, Down Second Avenue 156
28. Véronique Tadjo, The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda 157
29. Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru, Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple, An Oral Biography 158
30. Pietro Deandrea, Fertile Crossings: Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature 161
31. Alain Ricard, The Languages & Literatures of Africa 162
32. Ola Rotimi, ed. Issues in African Theatre 164
33. Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski (eds) Body, Sexuality, and Gender 166
34. Short Notices from the Editor of the Reviews Section 168
35. Index 171