The different political implications of sensationalism in the media and anti-sensationalism in Links, both entailed by the same trope, forms my basis for identifying metonymy as an important strategy in war representation and postcolonial literary criticism. In contrast, deploying metonymy as a strategy for representation and reading in Links reveals the anti-sensationalism of the novel and enables it to undermine the media's construction of the Somali war. Links by Nuruddin Farah - Reading Guide: 9780143034841 - : Books From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. In Links a native Somali who has lived in exile in New York for 20 years returns to his.

I want to argue that sensationalism at the heart of reportage, and specifically photography, is fuelled by a metonymic production and reproduction of images. Nuruddin Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa in southern Somalia. Riverhead 24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57322-265-5 In this stunning, timely novel from the internationally acclaimed Somalian writer Farah (From a Crooked Rib. The novel contributes an alternative anti-sensationalist representation of the events, by which I mean a representation in which the direct spectacle of violence is often mediated and deferred rather than exposed.

This paper shows how Nuruddin Farah's Links counters the sensationalist media representation of the UN and US intervention in the civil war in Somalia in the 1990s.