Narrating War and Peace in Africa

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Toyin Falola, Hetty ter Haar

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Toyin Falola, Hetty Ter Haar
• Assisted by: Professor Toyin (Series Editor) Falola (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor), Hetty Ter Haar (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781580469135
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-913-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 473 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries