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Title:

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

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xviii, 265 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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-

Other Authors:

Kapteijns, Lidwien
Richters, J. M. (Johanna Maria), 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; v. 5

ISBN:

9004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9789004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)601048231

LCCN:

2010013406

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)