{"product_id":"mediations-of-violence-in-africa-fashioning-new-futures-from-contested-pasts-9789004185364","title":"Mediations of Violence in Africa: Fashioning new futures from contested pasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social\/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface  Introduction Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters  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  List of Contributors Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210618593623,"sku":"9789004185364","price":74.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediations-of-violence-in-africa-fashioning-new-futures-from-contested-pasts-9789004185364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}