LEADER 07970nam 22005413 450 001 9910799205503321 005 20240521171423.0 010 $a3-031-39892-0 010 $a9783031398926$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a3031398920$b(electronic bk.) 035 $a(CKB)29476476900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31046398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31046398 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929476476900041 100 $a20240101d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRemembering mass atrocities $eperspectives on memory struggles and cultural representations in Africa /$fMphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu, editors 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing AG,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (306 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Macmillan Memory Studies 311 08$a9783031398919 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aConclusion -- 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. 327 $aThe 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. 327 $aSummary Executions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Perspectives from Latin America -- Chapter 14: Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America -- References -- Chapter 15: A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death, Resonance and Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico -- Introduction -- Founding the Perfect Dictatorship -- 2006: A Watershed -- Resonance Box -- The Collective Force, the Women's View -- Mapping the Barbarian Territory -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. 410 0$aPalgrave Macmillan memory studies. 606 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