Abstract
This essay speaks to recent debates in the literature of human rights by focusing on the figure of the African child soldier. I argue that the childsoldier figure represents a kind of limit-case for human rights discourse. Reading memoirs by former child-soldiers and memoir-style novels by the writers Ahmadou Kourouma, Uzodinma Iweala, Emmanuel Dongala, and Chris Abani, I contend that these works mobilize sentiment, Bildung, and the picaresque in their effort to negotiate and contest both the “politics of life” of humanitarian intervention and the necropolitical formations that produce child soldiers.
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