Violence and memory: The Mulele "Rebellion" in post-colonial D.R. Congo

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dc.contributor.authorKalema, Emery Masua
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-15T12:29:02Z
dc.date.available2019-04-15T12:29:02Z
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.description.abstractBetween 1963 and 1968, Pierre Mulele, previously Minister of National Education in the first post-colonial government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, led a rebellion in Kwilu province against the Congolese government. Strongly opposed to the new form of colonialism expressed in the “Belgo-Congolese dream,” Mulele took up arms to change the order of things. This thesis is about the suffering caused by this rebellion, the reproduction of this suffering across time, and its inscription in the imaginary of the survivors and, indirectly, the Congolese state and various political regimes in power in Kinshasa from the 1960s to the present. It is the overall question of the “imaginaries of suffering” that drives the analysis: suffering as what people experienced in the concrete conditions of existence during the rebellion; suffering experienced by the body during the rebellion; suffering as what the “body” remembers because it carries visible marks, recognizable by the self and others; and suffering as what leaves marks in the minds of the suffering subjects. The thesis is also about power, its meaning, and the complex interplay of forces between power, memory, and suffering. It draws on evidence from archival materials, oral testimonies, and debates from philosophy, history, anthropology, literary studies, and medical humanities published over the last thirty years by scholars from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMC2019en_ZA
dc.description.uriA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History), 2017
dc.format.extentOnline resource (195 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationKalema, Emery Masua (2017) Violence and memory: The Mulele "Rebellion" in post-colonial D.R. Congo, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/26756>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26756
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshDemocracy--Congo (Democratic Republic)
dc.subject.lcshCongo (Democratic Republic)--History
dc.subject.lcshCongo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government
dc.titleViolence and memory: The Mulele "Rebellion" in post-colonial D.R. Congoen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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