Description: Further DetailsTitle: Narrating War and Peace in AfricaCondition: NewISBN-10: 1580469132EAN: 9781580469135ISBN: 9781580469135Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/20/2017Description: 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.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 Universityof Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Toyin Falola (Edited by), Hetty ter Haar (Edited by)Genre: Literary CriticismTopic: Society & Culture, Law & Politics, HistoryBook Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the DiasporaAuthor: Toyin FalolaItem Weight: 1gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Title: Narrating War and Peace in Africa
ISBN-10: 1580469132
EAN: 9781580469135
ISBN: 9781580469135
Release Date: 08/20/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Hetty ter Haar (Edited by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Publication Name: Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Language: English
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: Media Studies, European / Spanish & Portuguese, Africa / General, Peace, Journalism, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Social Psychology
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology, History
Author: Hetty Ter Haar
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
