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Informationen zum Autor Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, UK. She is specialised in Arab and African cinema, with a focus on women's roles in the film industries. She has written two books, Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (2017) and Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic (2020) and three edited collections, Art and Trauma in Africa (2013), Film Festivals and the Middle East (2014) and Animation in the Middle East (2017). In addition, she programmes Arab cinema for international film festivals, and she works for the Africa in Motion film festival in Scotland. Zusammenfassung The traumas of conflict and war in postcolonial Africa have been widely documented, but less well-known are their artistic representations. A number of recent films, novels and other art forms have sought to engage with and overcome post-colonial atrocities and to explore the attempts of reconciliation commissions towards peace, justice and forgiveness. This creativity reflects the memories and social identities of the artists, whilst offering a mirror to African and worldwide audiences coming to terms with a collective memory that is often traumatic in itself. Questioning perception and interpretation, these new art forms challenge the inexpressible nature of atrocities. This groundbreaking volume will inspire those interested in African history and politics as well as broader cultural and artistic studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForewordIntroduction Representing the UnrepresentablePart One: Music Chapter One: Hip Hop Lyrics as Tool for Conflict Resolution in the Niger DeltaChapter Two: Grooving on Broken: Dancing War Trauma in Angolan KuduroChapter Three: Local Arts versus Global Terrorism: The Manifestations of Trauma and Modes of Reconciliation in Moroccan Music FestivalsPart Two: Visual ArtsChapter Four: Transforming Arms into Ploughshares: Weapons that Destroy and Heal in Mozambican Urban ArtChapter Five: Unlocking the Doors of Number Four Prison: Curating the Violent Past in Contemporary South AfricaChapter Six: Imaging Life after Death: Photography and the 1994 Genocide in RwandaPart Three: LiteratureChapter Seven: ‘It was a terrible time to be alive’: Narrative Reconciliation in Contemporary West African FictionChapter Eight: Truth Will Set You Free: Implications of a Creative Narrative for the ‘Official’ Discourse of the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionChapter Nine: Re-fathoming the Dark of Heartness: Contrapuntal Representations of the Rwandan Genocide Part Four: Film Chapter Ten: Reconciling the African Nation: Fanta Regina Nacro's La Nuit de la Vérité Chapter Eleven: Closed Windows onto Morocco’s Past: Leila Kilani’s Our Forbidden Places Chapter Twelve: Beyond ‘Victimology’: Generating Agency through Film in Eastern Democratic Republic of the CongoChapter Thirteen: Truth, Reconciliation and Cinema: Reflections on South Africa’s Recent Past in Ubuntu’s Wounds and Homecoming...
