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

Contributor(s): Kapteijns, Lidwien | Richters, J. M. (Johanna Maria), 1945- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 5.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: xviii, 265 p. : ill., portsISBN: 9789004185418 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Violence -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Case studies | Political violence -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Case studies | War and society -- Africa -- Case studies | Collective memory -- Africa -- Case studies | Africa -- History -- 1960-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.6/60967 LOC classification: HN780.Z9 | V564 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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