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Narrating War and Peace in Africa
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2010
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A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural studies, linguistics, journalism and the media, literature, film, drama and performance, women's and gender studies, and human rights.
Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace.While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates.
Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Universityof Texas at Austin.
Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.
Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace.While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates.
Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Universityof Texas at Austin.
Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.
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Contributor: Toyin Falola
TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.
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Preface
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Introduction Narrating War and Peace in Africa
1 - Part One Struggles for Independence
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1 Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa
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2 Alternative Representations of War in Africa
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3 All’s Well in the Colony
56 - Part Two Ungendering Confl icts, Engendering Peace
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4 Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching “Women, War, and Militarism in Africa”
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5 Women and War: A Kenyan Experience
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6 Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC
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7 Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare
141 - Part Three Narrative Strategies and Visions of Peace
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8 Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali
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9 Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri
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10 Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The “Burden” of Sierra Leone
195 - Part Four The Duty to Remember
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11 (Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye
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12 In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui’s La colline aux oliviers
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13 “Lament for the Casualties”: The Nigerian War of 1967–70 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
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Bibliography
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List of Contributors
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Index
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