Titlebook: Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa; Mphathisi Ndlovu,Lungile Augustine T

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Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South,ral memory is in re-organising society. This collection of chapters emerges from our scholarly preoccupation with memories of violent pasts and how they are mediated in various cultural artefacts. The book brings together researchers from across Africa and Latin America who examine how memories of m

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Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africaderstanding of ‘memory work’ has largely been based on Eurocentric perspectives of knowledge, while excluding and, arguably, erasing indigenous epistemologies as ‘knowledge on the other side of the line’. This chapter argues that communities in the Global South have pedagogical spaces whose various

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Resisting Oblivion and Memory: The Destruction of Gukurahundi Memorial Plaques in Zimbabwehieved, some present-day governments have assisted victims of violence through material, infrastructural and legal enablements so as to house memory and make it a site of learning, reflection and convergence, and facilitate healing and closure. This chapter looks at how the victims of the Zimbabwean

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Genocide, Memory Work and the Falsehood of Human Rights in Postapartheid South Africae-sanctioned genocide haunts South Africa’s history. This chapter looks at ways in which liberal language and liberal discourses, especially around human rights, have been historically deployed to exorcise the country’s nationalist narratives of this ghost. The chapter proceeds from the irony of cel

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‘People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned’: Remembering the First German Genocide in Namiiolent combat and terror to subjugate local African people living in what is now Namibia. This brutal colonial violence spiked after the Herero launched a rebellion which was later joined by the Nama people to resist their suppression, and the theft of their lands and cattle. The colonial violence t

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Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda’s ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse in the Preides—involving the uniqueness of either Tutsi or Hutu memories—which has over time produced a curious faction of the post-1994 Rwandan subject. What these contending views seem to ignore is that there can never be collective memory to which all citizens subscribe since history and memory are unavoid

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Literary Texts as Sites of Alternative Memorialisation, Memory-Making and Archive-Makinge narratives focus mainly on how the genocide was a government intervention in weeding out dissidents. The official archives do little in capturing the lives and deaths of the victims and survivors. Given such a situation, fictional literary texts have been important in offering sites of imagining a