TY - BOOK ID - 103134407 TI - Narrating war and peace in Africa AU - Falola, Toyin AU - Haar, Hetty ter PY - 2010 SN - 1580463304 9781580463300 1580469132 9786612788482 1580467075 1282788485 9781580467070 PB - Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press DB - UniCat KW - Friede. KW - Krieg. KW - Literatur. KW - Mass media and peace KW - Mass media and war KW - Massenmedien. KW - Peace in literature KW - Peace KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media KW - War in literature KW - War in mass media KW - War KW - Press coverage KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Subsaharisches Afrika. KW - In mass media KW - Stereotype (Psychology) in mass media KW - Mass media KW - Coexistence, Peaceful KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - International relations KW - Disarmament KW - Peace-building KW - Security, International KW - Peace and mass media KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - Military art and science KW - War and mass media KW - Africa, Black KW - Africa, Subsaharan KW - Africa, Tropical KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Black Africa KW - Sub-Sahara Africa KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Subsahara Africa KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - Tropical Africa KW - African conflicts. KW - African history. KW - African studies. KW - War and Peace. KW - cultural studies. KW - drama. KW - film. KW - human rights. KW - journalism. KW - linguistics. KW - literature. KW - nuanced representations. KW - political climates. KW - postcolonial violence. KW - women's studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103134407 AB -
Narrating War and Peace in Africa
interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in
Narrating War and Peace in Africa
aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates.
Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England. ER -