Making Memories Of Mogadishu In Somali Poetry About The Civil War

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ID20049995
AuthorsLidwien Kapteijns (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages25-74
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMediations of violence in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004185364.i-266.17
OpenAlexW627919218
ISBN9789004185364
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This essay examines a particular set of Somali poems, namely texts that discursively use Mogadishu, the capital city of the independent Republic of Somalia since 1960, to mediate the violence of state collapse and reconstruction. Before turning to these specific texts, however, it is necessary to provide some background to the wider set of sources to which they belong and the violence with which they deal. The analysis of the changing political dimension of the poems is a central theme of this chapter and prepares for a re-visiting, in the conclusion, of the nature of the poetry under study and the shared Somali public space in which it situates itself. This chapter also examines memory-making about Mogadishu in a genre of Somali poetry as it dealt with the violence of state collapse and reconstruction in shared public space. Keywords: Mogadishu; Somali; Somalia

Ancient history · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Public space · Somali · Spanish Civil War · African history and culture analysis · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy

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