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Title Mediations of violence in Africa [electronic resource] : fashioning new futures from contested pasts / edited by Lidwien Kapteijns, Annemiek Richters.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description xviii, 265 p. : ill., ports.
Series African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 ; v. 5
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Violence -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Case studies.
Political violence -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Case studies.
War and society -- Africa -- Case studies.
Collective memory -- Africa -- Case studies.
Africa -- History -- 1960-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kapteijns, Lidwien.
Richters, J. M. (Johanna Maria), 1945-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9004185364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9789004185418 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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