This question is based on REDEMPTION ROAD. The temporal setting of the novel is?

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Elma Shaw's Redemption Road is set against the backdrop of Liberia's devastating civil wars. The First Liberian Civil War lasted from 1989 to 1997, and the Second Liberian Civil War ran from 1999 to 2003. The novel's events unfold during and in the aftermath of these conflicts, placing it firmly in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The narrative deals with the trauma of war, displacement, and the struggle for personal and national healing in a period defined by factional violence, child soldiers, and the collapse of civil society. These historical realities anchor the novel to a specific era in Liberian and West African history.

The temporal setting is the 1990s and early 2000s. It is not set in the 1960s-1970s (Liberian independence and early republic era), the Renaissance (a European historical period), or the 2010s (by which Liberia was in a post-war reconstruction phase beyond the novel's scope).