Mediations of violence in Africa fashioning new futures from contested pasts
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 refas...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 5. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798310306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
