Remembering mass atrocities : perspectives on memory struggles and cultural representations in Africa / / Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799205503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 3-031-39892-0; 9783031398926; 3031398920
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Soggetti: Atrocities - Africa - History; Genocide - Africa - History; Collective memory - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South -- Introduction -- Mass Atrocities, Silenced Pasts and the Politics of Remembrance -- On Memory and Global South Perspectives: Theoretical Reflections -- Structure and Contributions -- References -- Part I: Memoryscapes: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa -- Introduction -- Current World System and the Silencing of Non-Western Views -- Decolonising Knowledge: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Memory Making -- Ubuntu and Collective Memory in Africa -- Gendered Memories: Towards a Decolonial Feminist Theory -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Resisting Oblivion and Memory: The Destruction of Gukurahundi Memorial Plaques in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- An Overview of Genocide -- The Gukurahundi Genocide -- The Zimbabwean Law and Genocide -- ZANU-PF and Dis-membering of Memory -- Methodological and Theoretical Framing -- Legal Prohibition of Destruction ; of Memorials and Monuments -- The Memorial Plaques, Resistance and Re-membering Memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Genocide, Memory Work and the Falsehood of Human Rights in Postapartheid South Africa -- Introduction -- Nationalism, Memory, Genocide and Human Rights -- Sharpeville and Marikana -- Sharpeville Massacre -- Marikana Massacre -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Peace Education in Schools as a Strategy of Preventing Prevalence of Organized Mass Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Levels of Violence in Schools -- Violence Prevention Strategies -- Strategies of Incorporating Peace Education in Schools -- The Role of the Educator -- Engagement of Learners in Peaceful Living Activities -- Peace Education as a Form of Memorization.; Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Mediating Genocide -- Chapter 6: The Constructions of the Homoíne Massacre in Mozambican Mainstream Newspapers -- Introduction -- A Brief Note on the Massacre at Homoíne -- Mozambican Socio-Political and Media Contexts -- The Media and Military Conflicts -- Journalistic Discourse -- Brief Notes on the Theory of Representation -- Methodological Considerations -- Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of the Homoíne Massacre -- Main Semantic Pathways: Intradiscursive -- Key Persuasion Strategies for Selection of Characters (Sources) -- Lexical Selection -- Silence and the Relationship Between Explicit and Implied Silence -- Discursive Oppositions -- Aspects of Discursive Syntax: Use of Verbal Tenses -- Direct and Indirect Speech -- Final Considerations -- References -- Chapter 7: Child Survivors, Witnessing and Memories of Gukurahundi: An Analysis of The Children of the Genocide (2021) Documentary Film -- Introduction -- Gukurahundi and the Unhealed Wounds of the Past -- Documentary Films and Memory-Making -- Witnessing and Postmemory: Theoretical Reflections -- "We Were All Made to Sit and Watch as They Shot Him to Death": Child Survivors as Witnesses -- Child Survivors, Memory and the Pain of Loss -- Family Photographs as Objects of Memory -- On Graves, Commemorative Practices and the Legacies of Gukurahundi -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: 'People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned': Remembering the First German Genocide in Namibia -- Introduction -- The Herero War -- Extermination Order -- Concentration Camps -- Colonial Science -- Enslaved Labour -- Cultural Genocide -- Remembering Through Cultural Representations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda's 'Double Genocide' Discourse in the Present Tense -- Introduction.; The Double Genocide Dish on Rwanda's Ethnic Templates Table -- Smile Through the Tears and Dying to Live and the Trope of Genocide Negationism -- (Re)considering Memoricide in Rwanda -- References -- Chapter 10: Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Making -- Introduction -- Theorising Archives and the (Un)archivable -- Literary Texts as Sites of Memorialisation and Memory-Making -- Representing the Unspeakable in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins -- Gukurahundi Remembered by a Child in Christopher Mlalazi's Running with Mother -- Born-Frees Remembering Gukurahundi in Novuyo Rosa Tshuma's House of Stone -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Gender and Memory -- Chapter 11: Exploring the Representation of Violence Against Women in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)-A Gendered Perspective -- Introduction -- Discourses on Genocide and Genocidal Rape -- Representations of Genocidal Rape in Film: Feminist Perspectives -- Films: Hotel ; Rwanda and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo -- Methodology -- Representing the Un-representable -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: "Carving Their Place in History": Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women's Writing -- Introduction -- Gender and Nationalisms -- Dictatorship and Reconstructing Public Memories -- Women Writing the Self -- Transgressing Racial and Gender Boundaries in Lomathinda: Rose Chibambo Speaks -- Reconfiguring Memories of Struggle in Vera Chirwa's Fearless Fighter -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo -- Introduction -- Nigeria-Biafra War and the Politics of Memory -- Theoretical Framework -- Method -- Rape and Forced Marriage -- Occupation Babies -- Looting and Destruction of Properties.; Summary Executions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Perspectives from Latin America -- Chapter 14: Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America -- References -- Chapter 15: A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death, Resonance and Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico -- Introduction -- Founding the Perfect Dictatorship -- 2006: A Watershed -- Resonance Box -- The Collective Force, the Women's View -- Mapping the Barbarian Territory -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.