Papers presented at the eighth international Africa Conference held Mar. 28-30, 2008, at the University of Texas at Austin. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
Contents:
"Lament for the casualties": the Nigerian War of 1967-70 and the poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo / Michael Sharp. 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.
Summary:
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. -- Jacket.
Series:
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 47
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