Tracks and traces of violence representation and memorialization of violence : views from art, literature and anthropology edited by the BIGSAS-workgroup "Tracks and Traces of Violence", Viviane Azarian, Amber Gemmeke, Katharina Fink, Moulay Driss el Maarouf, Maroua El Naggare, Samuel Ndogo, Gilbert Shang Ndi and Nadine Siegert
Tracks and Traces of Violence in Africa: Representation and Memorialization of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology (Conference) (2011 : Bayreuth, Germany) Search this
BIGSAS-workgroup "Tracks and Traces of Violence" Search this
Physical description:
353 pages illustrations (some color) 23 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
Africa
Afrique
Afrika
Date:
2017
Notes:
Proceedings of the conference Tracks and Traces of Violence in Africa: Representation and Memorialization of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology, held July 14-16, 2011 at the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth, Germany
15 English, 4 French contributions
AFA copy is a gift from Janet Stanley,
Contents:
Preface / Viviane Azarian -- Introduction / Amber Gemmeke -- Violence, literature, memory and the nation -- Doing things with blood : textualities of violence and imaginations of the nation in selected novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Ahmadou Kourouma / Gilbert Shang Ndi -- Memory, dialogue and reconstruction of the nation / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- The apocalypse now! : a reading of V. S. Naipaul's travel writing on Africa / Busolo Wegesa -- Re-writing violence -- Interpreting violence in contemporary South African fiction / Johan Jacobs -- Exploring colonial violence in childhood memoir : Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a time of war / Samuel Ndogo -- Littérature et tragédies historiques : penser les écritures de guerre à l'ère contemporaine entretien avec Pius Ngandu Nkashama / Réalisé par Karel Plaiche -- Le gouvernement de la bête : violence, application, (ré) appropriation et privatisation dans les écritures africaines postcoloniales : Sony Labou Tansi et Ahmadou Kourouma / David Koffi N 'goran -- Enfances volées dans l'espace insulaire : exemples de Madagascar et d'Haïti / Maroua El Naggare -- Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa : excerpts from "the last speech of Ngungunhane" from the novel Ualalapi -- The politics of the documentation and medialization of violence -- The banality of violence : reading the Daily Sun / Corinne Sandwith -- Writing about Rwanda / Véronique Tadjo -- Rachid el Adouani -- Notes on play, performance and the role of the artist : interview with Rachid el Adouani / by Moulay Driss el Maarouf -- Violence in contemporary art practice -- Local arts versus global terrorism : the manifestations of trauma and modes of reconciliation in Moroccan music festivals / Moulay Driss El Maarouf -- L'horreur créatrice : peinture marocaine et troubles de l'Histoire / Youssef Wahboun -- Schizophrenic : the individual in a brutalized society : negotiating memory, violence, witness and guilt in the art works of South African artist William Kentridge / Sandra Borngen -- As terras do fim do mundo -- As terras do fim do mundo : a photographic essay / Jo Ractliffe -- Institutions of violence -musealization and curatorial violence -- The objects' wounds : the musealization of Africa and the dismembering of colonial violence / Detlev Quintern -- Teasing out hope : notes on violence, archives and the future / Katharina Fink -- Violent images : iconoclasm as aesthetic tactic / Nadine Siegert -- Bio notes
