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Slave, Hero, Victim: The Child Soldi...

Kaoma, Kaelyn Elizabeth Alexandria.

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Slave, Hero, Victim: The Child Soldier Narrative in Context.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Slave, Hero, Victim: The Child Soldier Narrative in Context./
作者:	Kaoma, Kaelyn Elizabeth Alexandria.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	254 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-07A.
標題:	African literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10196118
ISBN:	9780355447125

Slave, Hero, Victim: The Child Soldier Narrative in Context.
Kaoma, Kaelyn Elizabeth Alexandria.

Slave, Hero, Victim: The Child Soldier Narrative in Context. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 254 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation interrogates the newly prominent figure of the child soldier in African literature. I examine a number of recent texts narrating the child soldier experience, both memoir (Ishmael Beah, Emmanuel Jal, China Keitetsi, Senait Mehari, Grace Akallo, Tchicaya Missamou, Niromi de Soyza) and fiction (Uzodinma Iweala, Ahmadou Kourouma, Emmanuel Dongala, Chris Abani). The anthropologist David Rosen argues that the contemporary Western humanitarian narrative often makes an automatic assumption of innocence based on age that is not necessarily applicable in non-Western cultures. The danger of imposing such Western frameworks on non-Western cultures is that it risks engaging in the same colonial tropes of paternalism towards the native "child" that were used to maintain dominance over colonized populations. Yet the hunger for narratives that portray the child soldier as an innocent victim who eventually is rescued and rehabilitated, as well as the fact that child soldier narratives are almost purely an African genre (even though there are substantial numbers of child soldiers in Asia, South America and the Middle East) suggests the kind of Orientalism that Edward Said warned us against: a desire to see Africa specifically as a place of violence and lost innocence that can be redeemed through Western intervention. This study takes a comparative approach, contextualizing the current literary trope of depicting the child soldier as lost innocent by comparing these contemporary narratives to a range of other texts. Chapter One examines the striking parallels between child soldier narratives and antebellum American slave narratives. Chapter Two juxtaposes child soldier narratives to the very different portrayal of South African youth involved in the militarized anti-apartheid movement. Chapter Three compares child soldier narratives to three texts narrating the experiences of young adult soldiers in the Zimbabwean war of liberation. Chapter Four questions why the child soldier is almost invariably imagined as African, while analyzing the one real exception to this rule, Niromi de Soyza's Tamil Tigress. Ultimately, through its examination of literary representations, my dissertation exposes the category of (African) child soldiers as highly problematic, allowing us to reconsider implicit myths of childhood and human rights.

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