Tracks and traces of violence
Subtitle: representation and memorialization of violence : views from art, literature and anthropology
By: edited by the BIGSAS-workgroup "Tracks and Traces of Violence" ; Viviane Azarian [and 7 others]
Contributors: Azarian, Viviane, 1973- editor; BIGSAS-workgroup "Tracks and Traces of Violence,"
Series: Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung -- Band 80; Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung -- Bd. 80.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9783643909145
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Violence; Congresses; History; Violence in literature; Violence in art; Atrocities; Atrocities in literature; Anthropology
Notes: Proceedings of the conference Tracks and Traces of Violence in Africa: Representation and Memorialization of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology, held July 14-16, 2011 at the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

15 English, 4 French contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Viviane Azarian -- Introduction / -- Amber Gemmeke; title: Violence, literature, memory & the nation --; title: Doing things with blood : textualities of violence and imaginations of the nation in selected novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Ahmadou Kourouma  -- Gilbert Shang Ndi; title: Memory, dialogue and reconstruction of the nation  -- Christopher Odhiambo Joseph; title: The apocalypse now! : a reading of V. S. Naipaul's travel writing on Africa  -- Busolo Wegesa; title: Re-writing violence --; title: Interpreting violence in contemporary South African fiction  -- Johan Jacobs; title: Exploring colonial violence in childhood memoir : Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a time of war  -- Samuel Ndogo; title: Littérature et tragédies historiques : penser les écritures de guerre à l'ère contemporaine entretien avec Pius Ngandu Nkashama  -- Réalisé par Karel Plaiche; title: Le gouvernement de la bête : violence, application, (ré) appropriation et privatisation dans les écritures africaines postcoloniales : Sony Labou Tansi et Ahmadou Kourouma  -- David Koffi N 'goran; title: Enfances volées dans l'espace insulaire : exemples de Madagascar et d'Haïti  -- Maroua El Naggare; title: Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa : excerpts from "the last speech of Ngungunhane" from the novel Ualalapi --; title: The politics of the documentation and medialization of violence --; title: The banality of violence : reading the Daily Sun  -- Corinne Sandwith; title: Writing about Rwanda  -- Véronique Tadjo; title: Rachid el Adouani --; title: Notes on play, performance and the role of the artist : interview with Rachid el Adouani  -- by Moulay Driss el Maarouf; title: Violence in contemporary art practice --; title: Local arts versus global terrorism : the manifestations of trauma and modes of reconciliation in Moroccan music festivals  -- Moulay Driss El Maarouf; title: L'horreur créatrice : peinture marocaine et troubles de l'Histoire  -- Youssef Wahboun; title: Schizophrenic : the individual in a brutalized society : negotiating memory, violence, witness and guilt in the art works of South African artist William Kentridge  -- Sandra Borngen; title: As terras do fim do mundo --; title: As terras do fim do mundo : a photographic essay  -- Jo Ractliffe; title: Institutions of violence -musealization and curatorial violence --; title: The objects' wounds : the musealization of Africa and the dismembering of colonial violence  -- Detlev Quintern; title: Teasing out hope : notes on violence, archives and the future  -- Katharina Fink; title: Violent images : iconoclasm as aesthetic tactic -- Nadine Siegert-- Bio notes.