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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Africa conference (08 ; 2008 ; Austin, Tex.)
Titre(s) : Narrating war and peace in Africa [Texte électronique] / edited by Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar
Publication : Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010
Description matérielle : 1 Online-Ressource (viii-325 p.)
Collection : Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
Lien à la collection : Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora (Online)
Note(s) : Papers presented at the "eighth international Africa Conference" held March 28-30,
2008, at the University of Texas at Austin
Introduction : narrating war and peace in Africa / Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar
-- Struggles for Independence. Wars of words: enlisting colonial languages in the
fight for independence in Africa / Ann Albuyeh -- Alternative representations of war
in Africa: new times and Ethiopia news coverage of the 1935-41 Italian-Ethiopian War
/ Metasebia Woldemariam -- All's well in the colony: newspaper coverage of the Mau
Mau movement, 1952-56 / Melissa Tully -- Ungendering conflicts, engendering peace.
Pedagogies of pain: teaching women, war, and militarism in Africa / Alicia C. Decker
-- Women and war: a Kenyan experience / Pamela Wadende -- Mass rape as a weapon of
war in the Eastern DRC / Jonathan Zilberg -- Mozambique: the gendered impact of warfare
/ Zermarie Deacon -- Narrative strategies and visions of peace. Acting as heroic:
creativity and political violence in Tuareg theater in Northern Mali / Susan Rasmussen
-- Representations of war and peace in selected works of Ben Okri / -- Kayode Omoniyi
Ogunfolabi -- Visions of war, testaments of peace: the "burden" of Sierra Leone /
Cheryl Sterling -- The duty to remember. (Re)writing the massacre of Thiaroye / Sabrina
Parent -- In search of lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers /
Amina Moinfar -- "Lament for the casualties": the Nigerian War of 1967-70 and the
poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo / Michael Sharp ; 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 University of Texas
at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Falola, Toyin (1953-....). Éditeur scientifique
Haar, Hetty ter. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Guerre -- Dans la littérature
Paix -- Dans la littérature
Médias et guerre -- Afrique subsaharienne
Genre ou forme : Actes de congrès
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781580467070. - ISBN 1580467075. - ISBN 9781580463300. - ISBN 1580463304
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458221926
Notice n° :
FRBNF45822192
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