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Performing Trauma in Central Africa
What are the stakes of performance in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? From the standpoint of empire, Laura Edmondson explores cultural production that responds to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the twenty-year civil war in northern Uganda, and regional conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She examines memorial ceremonies, plays, indigenous performance, NGO media campaigns, and contemporary dance to reveal how artists and cultural workers challenge state and humanitarian narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities. Carefully contextualizing these narratives within the charged political terrain of the Great Lakes Region, Edmondson deepens our understanding of the role of creative expression and cultural agency in conflict and postconflict zones.
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Understanding the Diversity and Complexity of Conflict in the African Great Lakes Region
Far from the influential Western-centric assumptions and international media propaganda that tend to regard African political conflicts as a resurgence of a malignant warrior spirit rooted in precolonial atavism, this chapter elucidates the diversity and complexity of the conflicts in the Great Lakes region. It places the multifaceted and interlocking conflicts and wars that have characterized the postcolonial experiences of the countries of Great Lakes in a historical perspective to illuminate why some have proved recurrent and persistent. I argue that although some conflicts date back to precolonial intergroup animosities, European colonial policies and politics most decisively account for the
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