Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me
This paper focuses on reimagining the developmental process of the child soldier who has developed abnormally into adulthood and bringing him back into normal childhood. In particular, it considers how the attention of Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s novel, Moses, Citizen & Me (2005) is directed at res...
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| description | This paper focuses on reimagining the developmental process of the child soldier who has developed abnormally into adulthood and bringing him back into normal childhood. In particular, it considers how the attention of Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s novel, Moses, Citizen & Me (2005) is directed at restoring the childhood of the child soldier. The novel achieves this aim through employing creative narrative techniques to take the monstrous adult that the child has become, through a reverse-development, back to childhood from which the child may be re-educated and re-formed. The novel thus represents how the child soldier whose experience has turned him into some kind of ‘monster’ may be restored to humanity. The paper argues that magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me encompasses a therapeutic tendency that represents a form of healing for child soldiers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f15bf738c4b448fcafd19e76ca3a645c2022-12-21T21:17:08ZafrTydskrif vir Letterkunde AssociationTydskrif vir Letterkunde0041-476X2309-90702019-10-0156210.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i2.5398Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & MeCecilia Addei0University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, GhanaThis paper focuses on reimagining the developmental process of the child soldier who has developed abnormally into adulthood and bringing him back into normal childhood. In particular, it considers how the attention of Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s novel, Moses, Citizen & Me (2005) is directed at restoring the childhood of the child soldier. The novel achieves this aim through employing creative narrative techniques to take the monstrous adult that the child has become, through a reverse-development, back to childhood from which the child may be re-educated and re-formed. The novel thus represents how the child soldier whose experience has turned him into some kind of ‘monster’ may be restored to humanity. The paper argues that magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me encompasses a therapeutic tendency that represents a form of healing for child soldiers.https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/5398child soldiersreverse developmentmagical realismMoses Citizen & Me |
| spellingShingle | Cecilia Addei Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me Tydskrif vir Letterkunde child soldiers reverse development magical realism Moses Citizen & Me |
| title | Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me |
| title_full | Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me |
| title_fullStr | Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me |
| title_short | Reversing perverted development: magical realism in Moses, Citizen & Me |
| title_sort | reversing perverted development magical realism in moses citizen me |
| topic | child soldiers reverse development magical realism Moses Citizen & Me |
| url | https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/5398 |
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