Biography (Honolulu), 2016-09, Vol.39 (4), p.535-561
2016
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- MAKING AND UNMAKING: CHILD-SOLDIER MEMOIRS AND HUMAN RIGHTS READERS
- Ist Teil von
- Biography (Honolulu), 2016-09, Vol.39 (4), p.535-561
- Ort / Verlag
- Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press for the Biographical Research Center
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Quelle
- Literature Online (LION)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This essay examines the ways child-soldier memoirs refashion the conventions of the quest-romance as a means of claiming political agency for the former child soldiers, even as the romance structure serves the readers of the memoirs differently, and in ways that threaten to compromise the political work the memoirists undertake.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0162-4962, 1529-1456eISSN: 1529-1456DOI: 10.1353/bio.2016.0064Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1878785118
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African literature, Analysis, Armed forces, Autobiographies, Autobiography, Biography, Chiasmus, Child soldiers, Children, Composition (Language arts), Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895), Forecasts and trends, Heroism, History, History publishing, Human rights, Humanitarianism, Influence, Market trend/market analysis, Mbembe, Achille (1957- ), Memoirs, Military aspects, Narratives, Political activism, Political aspects, Political violence, Politics, Portrayals, Publishing industry, Romance languages, Slavery, Soldiers, Subjectivity, Verbal aggression, War stories, World history, Written narratives