Narrating war and peace in Africa

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Narrating war and peace in Africa
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Toyin Falola ; Hetty Ter Haar
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Rochester [u.a.]
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VIII, 328 p.
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978-1-58046-330-0
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includes bibliographical references and index.
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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, Am_na 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 Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.
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Prefacep. ix
Introduction: Narrating War and Peace in Africa Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haarp. 1
Part 1Struggles for Independence
l Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa Ann Albuyehp. 21
2 Alternative Representations of War in Africa: New Times and Ethiopia News Coverage of the 1935-41 Italian-Ethiopian War Metasebia Woldemariamp. 44
3 All's Well in the Colony: Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement, 1952-56 Melissa Tullyp. 56
Part 2Ungendering Conflicts, Engendering Peace
4 Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching ôWomen, War, and Militarism in Africaö Alicia C. Deckerp. 79
5 Women and War: A Kenyan Experience Pamela Wadendep. 98
6 Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC Jonathan Zilbergp. 113
7 Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare Zermarie Deaconp. 141
Part 3Narrative Strategies and Visions of Peace
8 Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali Susan Rasmussenp. 155
9 Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabip. 180
10 Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The ôBurdenö of Sierra Leone Cheryl Sterlingp. 195
Part 4The Duty to Remember
11 (Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye Sabrina Parentp. 231
12 In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers Aména Moïnfarp. 241
13 ôLament for the Casualtiesö: The Nigerian War of 1967-70 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo Michael Sharpp. 271
Bibliographyp. 281
List of Contributorsp. 309
Index
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