Out of War by Mariane C. Ferme - 9780520294387

Out of WarViolence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone\nAuthor(s): Mariane C. Ferme\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520294387, 978-0520294387\nSynopsis\nOut of War draws on the author's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the after-effects of the harms of a civil war whose legacy is experienced in both physical and psychological ways. The author examines the relationship among violence, temporality, trauma, and forms of knowledge. She also puts an emphasis on \""war times\""-on the different qualities of temporality. Questions explored are the persistence of pre-colonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time (or \""chronotopes\"") collective anxieties. Above and beyond the expected traumas of war, the author explores the breaks in the intergenerational tr.