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Oct 2021
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JCL - Gender and the Politics of War His...

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Sarah Jilani presents the doctoral research  ‘Gender and the Politics of War Historiography in ‘Destination Biafra’ which explores how the Nigerian writer’s novel challenges war historiography through a ‘female perspective’ that scholarship has sometimes overlooked.

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