Falola / ter Haar Narrating War and Peace in Africa

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-58046-707-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 47, 342 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

A comprehensive volume that offers historical and nuanced representations of war and peace in Africa from the fields of African studies and cultural studies, linguistics, journalism and the media, literature, film, drama and performance, women's and gender studies, and human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

ter Haar, Hetty

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Wars of Words: Enlisting Colonial Languages in the Fight for Independence in Africa
Alternative Representations of War in Africa: New Times and Ethiopia News Coverage of the 1935-1941 Italian-Ethiopian War
All's Well in the Colony: Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement, 1952-1956
Pedagogies of Pain: Teaching "Women, War, and Militarism in Africa"
Women and War: A Kenyan Experience
Mass Rape as a Weapon of War in the Eastern DRC
Mozambique: The Gendered Impact of Warfare
Acting as Heroic: Creativity and Political Violence in Tuareg Theater in Northern Mali
Representations of War and Peace in Selected Works of Ben Okri
Visions of War, Testaments of Peace: The "Burden" of Sierra Leone
(Re)Writing the Massacre of Thiaroye
In Search of Lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers
"Lament for the Casualties": The Nigerian War of 1967-1970 and the Poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.