Performing trauma in Central Africa : shadows of empire /

Performing trauma in Central Africa : shadows of empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Edmondson, Laura, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 348 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	African expressive cultures African expressive cultures.
Subject:	War and theater -- Great Lakes Region (Africa) Performing arts -- Social aspects -- Great Lakes Region (Africa) Atrocities -- Social aspects -- Great Lakes Region (Africa) Performing arts -- Social aspects. War and theater. Africa -- Great Lakes Region.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12355559

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ISBN:	9780253032461 0253032466 9780253035516 0253035511 9780253032454
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2018).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Edmondson, Laura, 1970- Performing trauma in Central Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018 9780253032454

Table of Contents:

Competitive memory in the Great Lakes: touring genocide
Marketing trauma and the theatre of war in northern Uganda
Trauma, Inc. in postgenocide Rwanda
Repetition, rupture, and ruined: narratives from the Congo
Gifted by trauma: the branding of postconflict northern Uganda
Confessions of a failed theatre activist
Afterword: Faustin Linyekula and the labors of hope.