Mediations of violence in Africa
Subtitle: fashioning new futures from contested pasts
By: edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters
Series: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies -- v. 5; African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) -- v. 5.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789004185364
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns; title: The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner; title: Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele; title: Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja; title: Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters; title: "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.