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Title (Post)colonial histories : trauma, memory and reconciliation in the context of the Angolan civil war / Benedikt Jager, Steffi Hobuss (eds)
Published Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations (some color
Series Postcolonial studies ; volume 26
Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 26.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Black and White Dogs â#x80;#x93; Conceptual Encounters -- Angola -- â#x80;#x9C;They said we have to forgive each otherâ#x80;#x9D;: Memory, â#x80;#x98;Transitional Justiceâ#x80;#x99;, and (Post)colonialism in the Context of the International Screenings of the Documentary My Heart of Darkness -- The Ethics of Memory in My Heart of Darkness -- Memory, Contradictions and Resignification of Colonial Imagery in My Heart of Darkness -- Performing History. My Heart of Darkness from a Dramatist Perspective -- The Role of Music in Memorial Production and Discourse in My Heart of Darkness
Â#x80;#x9C;I donâ#x80;#x99;t trust in picturesâ#x80;#x9D;. Forms for Authentication in My Heart of Darkness and Annekatrin Hendelâ#x80;#x99;s VaterlandsverrÃÞterMemory, Trauma and Empathy. On the (Un)representability of the Civil War in Art -- Miss Landmine in Angola. Negotiating the Political Aesthetics of the Mutilated Body
Summary The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries to regain mental health and reconciliation. The film marks the stepping-stone for this volume: The contr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
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Subject Documentary films -- History and criticism
Veterans in motion pictures.
Biographical films -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
Memory.
Psychic trauma.
Postcolonialism.
postcolonialism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Biographical films
Documentary films
Memory
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
Postcolonialism
Psychic trauma
Veterans in motion pictures
Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975-2002 -- In motion pictures
Angola
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jager, Benedikt, 1966- editor, author.
Hobuss, Steffi, 1964- editor, author.
ISBN 9783839434796
3839434793