Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.
Contains index
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISBN 978-3-031-39892-6 (ebook); 978-3-031-39891-9 (print)
"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." (Publisher description)
1 Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South / Lungile Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu, Shepherd Mpofu, 1
PART I: MEMORYSCAPES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
2 Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa / Lungile Tshuma, 17
3 Resisting Oblivion and Memory: The Destruction of Gukurahundi Memorial Plaques in Zimbabwe / Shepherd Mpofu, Siphosami Malunga, 35
4 Genocide, Memory Work and the Falsehood of Human Rights in Postapartheid South Africa / Khanyile Mlotshwa, 57
5 Peace Education in Schools as a Strategy of Preventing Prevalence of Organized Mass Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe / Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni, 77
PART II: MEDIATING GENOCIDE
6 The Constructions of the Homoíne Massacre in Mozambican Mainstream Newspapers / Alexandre Dinis Zavale, Isaías Carlos Fuel, Carlos Elias Vitanisso, 93
7 Child Survivors, Witnessing and Memories of Gukurahundi: An Analysis of The Children of the Genocide (2021) Documentary Film / Mphathisi Ndlovu, 113
8 'People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned': Remembering the First German Genocide in Namibia / Pedzisai Maedza, 135
9 Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda's 'Double Genocide' Discourse in the Present Tense / Nick Mdika Tembo, 153
10 Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Making / Gibson Ncube, Yemurai Gwatirisa, 173
PART III: GENDER AND MEMORY
11 Exploring the Representation of Violence Against Women in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)-A Gendered Perspective / Blessed Ngwenya, Mcebisi Ngwenya, 197
12 "Carving Their Place in History": Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women's Writing / Asante Lucy Mtenje, 217
13 Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo / Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, 241
PART IV: PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA
14 Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America / Emmanuel N. Kahan, 271
15 A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death, Resonance and Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico / Pedro J. Gonzalez Corona, 281
PART I: MEMORYSCAPES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
2 Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa / Lungile Tshuma, 17
3 Resisting Oblivion and Memory: The Destruction of Gukurahundi Memorial Plaques in Zimbabwe / Shepherd Mpofu, Siphosami Malunga, 35
4 Genocide, Memory Work and the Falsehood of Human Rights in Postapartheid South Africa / Khanyile Mlotshwa, 57
5 Peace Education in Schools as a Strategy of Preventing Prevalence of Organized Mass Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe / Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni, 77
PART II: MEDIATING GENOCIDE
6 The Constructions of the Homoíne Massacre in Mozambican Mainstream Newspapers / Alexandre Dinis Zavale, Isaías Carlos Fuel, Carlos Elias Vitanisso, 93
7 Child Survivors, Witnessing and Memories of Gukurahundi: An Analysis of The Children of the Genocide (2021) Documentary Film / Mphathisi Ndlovu, 113
8 'People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned': Remembering the First German Genocide in Namibia / Pedzisai Maedza, 135
9 Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda's 'Double Genocide' Discourse in the Present Tense / Nick Mdika Tembo, 153
10 Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Making / Gibson Ncube, Yemurai Gwatirisa, 173
PART III: GENDER AND MEMORY
11 Exploring the Representation of Violence Against Women in Hotel Rwanda (2004) and The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)-A Gendered Perspective / Blessed Ngwenya, Mcebisi Ngwenya, 197
12 "Carving Their Place in History": Reconstructing Public Memories of Anti-Colonial Struggle Through Malawian Women's Writing / Asante Lucy Mtenje, 217
13 Memories of Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Case of Nsukka Igbo / Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani, 241
PART IV: PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA
14 Between Collective Action and Public Policies: A Panoramic Perspective on Memory in Latin America / Emmanuel N. Kahan, 271
15 A Country of Mass Graves: Topography of Death, Resonance and Disappearances in Contemporary Mexico / Pedro J. Gonzalez Corona, 281
