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      Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique
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      Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

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      Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging

      Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

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      Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging
      ByJonna Katto
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 15 November 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429289354
      Pages 278
      eBook ISBN 9780429289354
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
      OA Funder University of Helsinki
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      Katto, J. (2019). Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique: Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429289354

      ABSTRACT

      This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation.

      Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the women ex-combatants’ lived landscapes, shows how their life trajectories unfold as nonlinear spatial histories. This brings into focus the women’s shifting and multilayered negotiations for personal space and belonging. This book explores the life memories of the now aging female ex-combatants in the province of Niassa in northern Mozambique, looking at how the female ex-combatants’ experiences of living in these northern landscapes have shaped their sense of socio-spatial belonging and attachment. It builds on the premise that individual embodied memory cannot be separated from social memory; personal lives are culturally shaped. Thus, the book does not only tell the history of a small and rather unique group of women but also speaks about wider cultural histories of body-landscape relations in northern Mozambique and especially changes in those relations.

      Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women’s history and peace and conflict studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |39 pages

      Introduction

      Gendered bodies, moving landscapes, and spatial histories

      Size: 1.22 MB

      part Part I|34 pages

      Talking freedom

      chapter 1|28 pages

      FRELIMO nationalism, female bodies, and the language of gender

      Size: 0.23 MB

      part Part II|49 pages

      Violent liberation

      chapter 2|17 pages

      Female combatants and gendered styles of being

      Size: 1.13 MB

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Guerrilla life and the haptics of the “bush”

      Size: 2.40 MB

      chapter 4|7 pages

      Body feelings and violent memories

      Size: 0.10 MB

      part Part III|110 pages

      Beautiful belonging

      chapter 5|52 pages

      Living landscape

      Size: 1.09 MB

      chapter 6|41 pages

      Rhythmic beauty

      Size: 3.63 MB

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Home, (be)longing, and the beautiful

      Size: 0.10 MB

      chapter |5 pages

      Epilogue

      Spatial movements, relations, and representations

      Size: 0.08 MB
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