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The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of Arrested Historicization

机译：儿童兵的叙事与被捕历史化问题

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This essay proposes a comparative reading of child soldier narratives from Africa, most of them novels, and argues that the recent texts (those published since the mid-1990s) exhibit a lesser engagement with history than the war novels from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods. One reason for this loss of historicity lies in the way the human rights frame is applied to the child soldier identity and conditions his or her story. The earlier war novels were written in the context of resistance struggles that highlight the agency of the subject whereas the recent emphasis on the victim status of the child soldier seems to compromise his agency. Looking to narrative as a part of the therapeutic process of recovery, these recent texts contrast a past loss of agency that pertains to the time of the war with a future regaining of agency through recovery. This narrative pattern serves to individualize the child soldier and to shift attention away from social and political conditions that brought on his or her circumstances in the first place. The essay also pays attention to recent texts that critique this trend by framing their narratives as failed novels of education and hence tapping into an earlier tradition of African writing as a way of providing historical contextualization. Thus the works of Ahmadou Kourouma and Emmanuel Dongala demonstrate that the complexity of the historical, political, cultural, as well as individual circumstances of the child soldier requires the deployment of a less literal, more ironic, and even allegorical method of narrative representation.
机译：本文提议对非洲儿童兵的叙述进行比较阅读，其中大多数是小说，并认为与殖民时期和后殖民时期的战争小说相比，最近的著作（自1990年代中期以来出版的）对历史的参与较少。 。失去历史性的一个原因在于将人权框架应用于童兵身份并确定其故事的方式。较早的战争小说是在抵抗斗争的背景下写成的，这些斗争突出了主体的作用，而最近对童兵受害人地位的强调似乎损害了他的作用。这些新近的文本将叙事作为恢复治疗过程的一部分，将过去与战争时期有关的代理损失与未来通过恢复重新获得代理进行了对比。这种叙事模式有助于使儿童兵个性化，并将注意力从最初引起其状况的社会和政治条件转移开。这篇文章还关注那些批评这种趋势的最新文章，这些文章将其叙述视为失败的教育小说，并因此借鉴了非洲写作的较早传统作为提供历史背景的一种方式。因此，Ahmadou Kourouma和Emmanuel Dongala的作品表明，儿童兵的历史，政治，文化以及个人情况的复杂性要求采用一种较少字面意义，更具讽刺意味甚至寓言化的叙事方法。

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