Titlebook: Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature; Memories and Futures Christopher E. W. Ouma Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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Introduction: Constructing Childhood as a Set of Ideas,he chapter then provides a literary history of childhood in the imagination of modern African literature, after which it maps out the critical field of African childhood literary studies. Subsequently the chapter argues that the preponderance of figures, images and memories of childhood amongst cont

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,“We Are Children of the Cold War”: Childhood Times as Alternative,and 80s. They do this through a tactical selection of particular events where the life-world of childhood is constructed through the “ordinary” temporal landscape that operates below and besides an adult worldview. While the 70s and 80s were historical periods dominated by authoritarian governments—

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Countries of the Mind: Cartographies of Postmemory,lar temporalities outlined in the previous chapter. The chapter reads Adichie’s . and . as narratives which construct particular spaces as chronotopes of return—places which are read as conjunctures of nostalgia, familial genealogy and cultural memory within the context of the Biafran War. In this m

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,Childhoods of War: “Na Craze World Be Dat”,zenship defined by these categories. Reading child soldiers alongside the assumptions of a chronology of independent nationalism, the chapter uses Joseph Slaughter’s argument on the discourse of human rights in relation to genre, to demonstrate how the child soldier disrupts the chronologies and ali

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Queer Childhoods and Multidirectional Desire,emise that while the category of childhood has in the past signposted the packaging of knowledge about the continent, gendered childhoods have allowed contemporary African writers to foreground the connections between the heteronormativity of the African literary canon and the imperial project of th

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