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East Africa Civil Wars’ Impact on Children: A Case Study of Selected Texts

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/EASJEHL.2019.v02i11.002

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One of the most salient features of contemporary Eastern African fiction is the recurrent emphasis on civil war and its dehumanizing impact on innocent civilians. The present analysis focuses on wars’ impact on children, as reflected in two selected short stories: “My Parents’ Bedroom” by Uwem Akpan, and “Butterfly Dreams” by Beatrice Lamwaka. The study is carried out using the framework of New Historicism, which posits that a text is an instrument of political awareness, whose understanding involves taking into account the various social concerns around which the text is built. It highlights the various forms of atrocities which leave children with a treble yoke: a memory of unspeakable pain, a wretched life and an unpromising future. These wars leave children orphans, physically and emotionally wounded, abused and helpless, often at the mercy of war lords or hardened criminals who abduct them and initiate them into adult vices. Rape, dropping out of school, and dehumanization, are only a few of the various aspects which child victimization takes in the texts under consideration.

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