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The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel

Author : Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800857377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel written by Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa's postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa's postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly-specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide's nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust.

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel

Author : Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781800856875
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel written by Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel, Chigbo Anyaduba examines fictional responses to mass atrocities occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the genocides of the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the book underscores the ways that literary encounters with genocides in Africa's postcolonies have attempted to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory forms of mass violence. The book concretizes and troubles one of the apparent truisms of genocide studies, especially in the context of imaginative literature: that the reality of genocide more often than not resists meaningfulness. Particularly given the centrality of this truism to artistic responses to the Holocaust and to genocides more generally, Anyaduba tracks the astonishing range of meanings drawn by writers at a series of (temporal, spatial, historical, cultural and other) removes from the realities of genocide in Africa's postcolonies, a set of meanings that are often highly-specific and irreducible to maxims or foundational cases. The book shows that in the artistic projects to construct meanings against genocide's nihilism writers of African genocides deploy tropes that while significantly oriented to African concerns are equally shaped by the representational conventions and practices associated with the legacies of the Holocaust.

When Victims Become Killers

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193835
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book When Victims Become Killers written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

Not My Time to Die

Author : Mukagasana, Yolande
Publisher : Huza Press
ISBN 13 : 9997772563
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Not My Time to Die written by Mukagasana, Yolande and published by Huza Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she’s a successful woman and a Tutsi, she flees for her life. This gripping memoir describes the betrayal of friends and help that comes from surprising places. Quick-witted and courageous, Yolande never loses hope she will find her children alive. "This book was one of the first literary testimonies that I read in French about Rwanda. I found it profoundly moving — both realistic and introspective. Thanks to this beautiful translation, it is at long last available to the English-speaking public." Véronique Tadjo "Reading Yolande Mukagasana’s book in French at the age of fifteen changed my life. I realized that genocide is not a mass crime but a single murder repeated hundreds of thousands of times. With this testimony the genocide is no longer just a historical event, it is instead the story of a woman, a mother, a Tutsi. And this is what makes Yolande’s account universal." Gaël Faye

Rwanda Genocide Stories

Author : Nicki Hitchcott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781384827
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Rwanda Genocide Stories written by Nicki Hitchcott and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide.

The Nigeria-Biafra War

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968235
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Nigeria-Biafra War written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making and Unmaking Nations

Author : Scott Straus
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455677
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Making and Unmaking Nations written by Scott Straus and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018 Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA) Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA) In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide occurred and where it could have but did not. Why have there not been other Rwandas? Straus finds that deep-rooted ideologies—how leaders make their nations—shape strategies of violence and are central to what leads to or away from genocide. Other critical factors include the dynamics of war, the role of restraint, and the interaction between national and local actors in the staging of campaigns of large-scale violence. Grounded in Straus's extensive fieldwork in contemporary Africa, the study of major twentieth-century cases of genocide, and the literature on genocide and political violence, Making and Unmaking Nations centers on cogent analyses of three nongenocide cases (Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal) and two in which genocide took place (Rwanda and Sudan). Straus's empirical analysis is based in part on an original database of presidential speeches from 1960 to 2005. The book also includes a broad-gauge analysis of all major cases of large-scale violence in Africa since decolonization. Straus's insights into the causes of genocide will inform the study of political violence as well as giving policymakers and nongovernmental organizations valuable tools for the future.

Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 085745952X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.

Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide

Author : Jack Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351347241
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide written by Jack Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies. Addressing these themes at critical historical junctures – precolonial, colonial and postcolonial – the book argues that the recent experiences of extremely violent social conflict in Burundi and Rwanda cannot be seen as an ‘object apart’ from the concerns of sociologists, as it is commonly presented. Instead, these experiences are situated within a specific route to and through modernity, one ‘entangled’ with Western modernity. A contribution to an emerging global historical sociology, Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in postcolonialism, historical sociology, multiple modernities and genocide.

Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

Author : A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351858653
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide written by A. Dirk Moses and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campaigns by humanitarian NGOs and international organizations like the Red Cross, the actions of foreign powers with interests in the conflict, and the significance of the international public sphere, in which the propaganda and public relations war about the question of genocide was waged.

The Great Lakes of Africa

Author : Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781890951351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Great Lakes of Africa written by Jean-Pierre Chrétien and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language publication of a major history of the Great Lakes region of Africa. Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa--which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and Uganda--are scarce. Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chr tien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars. This translation brings the work of a leading French historian to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Chr tien retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. He describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how German, British, and Belgian colonizers not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them. Finally, he shows how the independent states of the postcolonial era, in particular Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and precolonial legacies, especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chr tien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research--not only because its history is fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past.

Nation Without Narration

Author : Ramon A. Fonkoué
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621964827
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Nation Without Narration written by Ramon A. Fonkoué and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with bearing on people's lived experience. This study draws from a diversity of fields-political science, literature, history, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies-to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's currently volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere"--

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda

Author : Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739147625
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda written by Alexandre Dauge-Roth and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors, to films such as Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, the arts of witnessing are varied, comprehensive, and compelling. Alexandre Dauge-Roth compares the specific potential and the limits of each medium to craft unique responses to the genocide and instill in us its haunting legacy. In the wake of genocide, urgent questions arise: How do survivors both claim their shared humanity and speak the radically personal and violent experience of their past? How do authors and filmmakers make inconceivable trauma accessible to a society that will always remain foreign to their experience? How are we transformed by the genocide through these various modes of listening, viewing, and reading?

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

Author : Lasse Heerten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107111803
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism written by Lasse Heerten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

The Path to Genocide in Rwanda

Author : Omar Shahabudin McDoom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491464
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Path to Genocide in Rwanda written by Omar Shahabudin McDoom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses unique field data to offer a rigorous explanation of how Rwanda's genocide occurred and why Rwandans participated in it.

Genocide in Libya

Author : Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000169367
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Genocide in Libya written by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies 2022 This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps (1929–1934) through the oral testimonies of Libyan survivors. This book links the Libyan genocide through cross-cultural and comparative readings to the colonial roots of the Holocaust and genocide studies. Between 1929 and 1934, thousands of Libyans lost their lives, directly murdered and victim to Italian deportations and internments. They were forcibly removed from their homes, marched across vast tracks of deserts and mountains, and confined behind barbed wire in 16 concentration camps. It is a story that Libyans have recorded in their Arabic oral history and narratives while remaining hidden and unexplored in a systematic fashion, and never in the manner that has allowed us to comprehend and begin to understand the extent of their existence. Based on the survivors’ testimonies, which took over ten years of fieldwork and research to document, this new and original history of the genocide is a key resource for readers interested in genocide and Holocaust studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and African and Middle Eastern studies.

Violence and Belonging

Author : Vigdis Broch-Due
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415290067
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Belonging written by Vigdis Broch-Due and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.