Mediating Violence | George MacLeod sku-2498270465

Mediating Violence from Africa by George MacLeod is a hardcover book in African History Books, SKU sku-2498270465. It examines how African and non-African Francophone writers, filmmakers, editors and scholars have presented violence in post-Cold War Africa.

Its subjects include child soldiers armed with Soviet castoff Kalashnikov rifles, Islamist terrorism in West Africa and the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Through readings of fiction, film, survivor testimony and Western scholarship, MacLeod considers the aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical questions involved in representing trauma.

He argues that a post-Cold War framework helps explain how these works respond to shifts in political discourse after 1989. The book also considers memory, the consequences of circulating images of violence without context and Africa's place in a global economic and political setting.