Research Catalog

Title

Narrating war and peace in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar.

Author

Africa Conference (Tex.) (2008 : University of Texas at Austin)

Publication

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Falola, Toyin.
• Haar, Hetty ter.

Description

viii, 328 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 47

Uniform Title

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 47.

Subject

• War in mass media > Congresses
• War in literature > Congresses
• Peace in literature > Congresses
• Mass media and war > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• War > Press coverage > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Mass media and peace > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Peace > Press coverage > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media > Congresses
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > In mass media > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at the eighth international Africa Conference held Mar. 28-30, 2008, at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : narrating war and peace in Africa / Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar -- Struggles for Independence. Wars of words: enlisting colonial languages in the fight for independence in Africa / Ann Albuyeh -- Alternative representations of war in Africa: new times and Ethiopia news coverage of the 1935-41 Italian-Ethiopian War / Metasebia Woldemariam -- All's well in the colony: newspaper coverage of the Mau Mau movement, 1952-56 / Melissa Tully -- Ungendering conflicts, engendering peace. Pedagogies of pain: teaching women, war, and militarism in Africa / Alicia C. Decker -- Women and war: a Kenyan experience / Pamela Wadende -- Mass rape as a weapon of war in the Eastern DRC / Jonathan Zilberg -- Mozambique: the gendered impact of warfare / Zermarie Deacon -- Narrative strategies and visions of peace. Acting as heroic: creativity and political violence in Tuareg theater in Northern Mali / Susan Rasmussen -- Representations of war and peace in selected works of Ben Okri / -- Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi -- Visions of war, testaments of peace: the "burden" of Sierra Leone / Cheryl Sterling -- The duty to remember. (Re)writing the massacre of Thiaroye / Sabrina Parent -- In search of lost Kabyles in Mehdi Lallaoui's La colline aux oliviers / Amina Moinfar -- "Lament for the casualties": the Nigerian War of 1967-70 and the poetry of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo / Michael Sharp.

Call Number

JFE 11-492

ISBN

• 9781580463300 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1580463304 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010016236

OCLC

610206195

Conference

Africa Conference (Tex.) (2008 : University of Texas at Austin)

Title

Narrating war and peace in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar.

Imprint

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.

Series

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; v. 47

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 47.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Falola, Toyin.

Haar, Hetty ter.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-492