Mediations of Violence in Africa ：Fashioning new futures from contested pasts ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Fashioning new futures from contested pasts

Publication series ：1

Author： Kapteijns   Lidwien;Richters   Annemiek  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9789004185418

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004185364

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004185364

Subject： C91 Sociology

Language： ENG

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Drawing on the words of African poets, singers, war veterans, and other witnesses and survivors of recent wars in Africa, this book shows how those who experienced the violence of war interpret that violence and shape and come to terms with its consequences.

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Illustrations

pp.：  7 – 8

Colour Plates

pp.：  9 – 16

Preface

pp.：  17 – 18

Introduction

pp.：  19 – 42

Making Memories of Mogadishu in Somali Poetry about the Civil War

pp.：  43 – 92

The Road, the Song and the Citizen: Singing after Violence in Kwazulu-Natal

pp.：  93 – 124

Maisha bora, kwa, nani? A Cool Life, for Whom? Mediations of Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Violence in a Nairobi Slum

pp.：  125 – 158

Testimonies of Suffering and Recasting the Meanings of Memories of Violence in Post-war Mazambique

pp.：  159 – 190

Suffering and Healing in the Aftermath of War and Genocide in Rwanda: Mediations through Community-Based Sociotherapy

pp.：  191 – 228

"The Balsak in the Roof": Bush War Experiences and Mediations as Related by White South African Conscripts

pp.：  229 – 264

List of Contributors

pp.：  265 – 266

Index

pp.：  267 – 283

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