Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

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Synopsis

This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2024
Series:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Author:
Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu
ISBN:
9783031398926
Related ISBNs:
9783031398919
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2024-01-29
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2024
Copyright by:
The Editor 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Language Arts, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Sociology