基本説明
This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Including the words of Somali poets, Zulu singers, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.
Full Description
This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Colour Plates
Preface
Introduction Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters
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
List of Contributors
Index
