Representation of the Sierra Leonese Civil War in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone

Abstract

This research has explored the issues of "Representation of Sierra Leonese Civil War in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone". This memoir has depicted the issue of what war is like through the eyes of a child soldier. This memoir has represented the African civil war, where people have been suffering from a miserable life due to the dominance of power holders. On the surface, this memoir appears to be text- driven by the central view of the historical pursuit migrating from the little place for the new historical literary analysis. In-depth, it has explored the suppression of poor people by the people who are in power through war. The researcher has seen it from the lens of New Historicist perspectives using the main concepts of H. Aram Veeser's “New Historicism”, Foucauld's “Power and Knowledge” and “New Historicism”, and Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher’s “Practicing New Historicism”. This research explores the Sierra Leonese suppression by power holders because of how much they try to escape from the injustice they get more abused. The Hero: Ishmael Beah is forced to go to war and bound to carry AK-47s the tendency of official history.