Abstract
Debates about the status of child soldiers under international law have tended to concentrate on legal culpability. After reading fiction and memoir that relate the stories of African child soldiers, I argue in this essay that, to understand such narratives more fully, legal culpability must be placed in relation to guilt in a broader sense: whether or not actual acts of violence have been committed, the parricidal phantasies that produce guilt shape the narratives, as well as the former youth combatants’ relation to the law.
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