03667nam 2200721 a 450 991046034210332120200520144314.01-282-95278-1978661295278490-04-18541-010.1163/ej.9789004185364.i-266(CKB)2670000000067099(EBL)635041(OCoLC)701095610(SSID)ssj0000439499(PQKBManifestationID)11332228(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439499(PQKBWorkID)10460590(PQKB)10443686(MiAaPQ)EBC635041(OCoLC)601048231(nllekb)BRILL9789004185418(PPN)170756106(Au-PeEL)EBL635041(CaPaEBR)ebr10439186(CaONFJC)MIL295278(EXLCZ)99267000000006709920100409d2010 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtccrMediations of violence in Africa[electronic resource] fashioning new futures from contested pasts /edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek RichtersLeiden ;Boston Brill20101 online resource (283 p.)African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies,1574-6925 ;v. 5Description based upon print version of record.90-04-18536-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;v. 5.ViolenceSocial aspectsAfricaCase studiesPolitical violenceSocial aspectsAfricaCase studiesWar and societyAfricaCase studiesCollective memoryAfricaCase studiesAfricaHistory1960-Electronic books.ViolenceSocial aspectsPolitical violenceSocial aspectsWar and societyCollective memory303.6/60967Kapteijns Lidwien657702Richters J. M(Johanna Maria),1945-863441MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460342103321Mediations of violence in Africa1927295UNINA