| Abstract: |
Men have been accused in some scholarly circles of depicting war as their exclusive domain. However, women now grapple with the realities of their own experience as biological and human types who could have different interests and views of life in sundry sites, including wars. This paper engages Flora Nwapa’s petty civil war novel Never Again to distance the author from the concerns raised by male narrators of the war by presenting the focal point in her version of the war. The study deploys the tools of feminism and new historicism to discover what serves as Nwapa’s version of the truth of the war. It uncovers in consequence, the author’s bent toward family survival not the defeat of the enemy or the protection of the fatherland and, therefore, demonstrates a different psychology and concern from those favoured by most male narrators of the form and subject. The study puts in perspective, how the resources of New Historicism and Feminism as postmodernist frames of discourse, may successfully bear the brunt of exegesis in the constructions of versions of truths, in this exhibition, war truths. |
EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
