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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785695103321

Titolo

Mediations of violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-95278-1

9786612952784

90-04-18541-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, , 1574-6925 ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

KapteijnsLidwien

RichtersJ. M <1945-> (Johanna Maria)

Disciplina

303.6/60967

Soggetti

Violence - Social aspects - Africa

Political violence - Social aspects - Africa

War and society - Africa

Collective memory - Africa

Africa History 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as



well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.