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Performing Trauma in Central Africa : Shadows of Empire / Laura Edmondson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmondson, Laura, 1970- author.
- Series:
- African expressive cultures.
- African expressive cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atrocities--Social aspects--Great Lakes Region (Africa).
- Atrocities.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--Great Lakes Region (Africa).
- Performing arts.
- War and theater--Great Lakes Region (Africa).
- War and theater.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Working at the intersection of performance and trauma, Edmondson reveals how artists and cultural workers manipulate narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780253035509
- 0253035503
- 9780253039118
- 0253039118
- 9780253032461
- 0253032466
- OCLC:
- 1007505365
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