providing a sense of hope in the future, as war traumas can be retold through narratives of resilience and resistance. This overarching framework makes the collection a useful resource for students and scholars in multiple disciplines, including African studies, feminist security studies, peace and conflict studies, and women’s and gender studies. In presenting a collection of essays, written mostly by Africa-based or Africaborn academics, for non-African audiences, Uwakweh is ever mindful of the power of the pen. In compiling the essays, Uwakweh seems equally concerned with issues of whose voice and which individual and collective identities matter. The first section includes analysis of women’s agency in the Biafran conflict (Jessie Sagawa, Chapter 1), gendered anti-colonial resistance to Chimurenga in colonial Rhodesia (Tendai Mangena, Chapter 2), how war changed women’s roles in the private and public spheres in postcolonial Angola (P. Julie Papaioannou, Chapter 4), and women’s self-reliance and resilience in the face of physical and structural violence in postcolonial francophone Cameroon (Paul N. Touré, Chapter 5). The second section addresses the gendered aftermaths of war, in narrating the trauma of girl soldiers in northern Uganda (Uwakweh, Chapter 6), and the struggles of Hutu women to be recognized as survivors after the Rwandan genocide (Emilie Diouf, Chapter 7). Three chapters are not country-specific. Instead, they seek to theorize gendered forms of human suffering through a denial of personhood, statehood, or both. Nanjala Nyabola (Chapter 9) unpacks the need for women and men to perform vulnerability in seeking legal refugee protection. Moussa Issifou (Chapter 8) reminds readers of the importance of ethically and sensitively mediating the contested terrain between victims’ narrative of violence and the testimonies of perpetrators of that same violence. Melissa R. Root (Chapter 3) theorizes the discursive effects of how political elites frame women as victims as well as the ways in which national violence is grafted onto, and often memorialized through, the female body. Taken together, these three chapters remind readers that the dictates of war and statehood are inscribed on the human body, a long-standing concern of feminist scholars who rarely consider the way in which war is written onto African bodies, let alone African women’s bodies. African Women Under Fire provides a way for Western scholars to enter into academic debates on the embodiment of war, national traumas, and women’s political agency. Careful readers of this thoughtful collection of essays by and for African women will be richly rewarded.

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罗伯特·J·戈登，马克斯·格鲁克曼之谜：非洲“幸运人”的民族志生活。林肯东北和伦敦：内布拉斯加大学出版社（hb US$80 – 978 0 8032 9083 9）。2018 年，xxii + 475 页。

提供对未来的希望感，因为战争创伤可以通过韧性和抵抗的叙述来重述。这一总体框架使该馆藏成为多学科学生和学者的有用资源，包括非洲研究、女权主义安全研究、和平与冲突研究以及妇女和性别研究。在向非非洲观众展示主要由非洲或非洲出生的学者撰写的论文集时，Uwakweh 始终牢记笔的力量。在撰写论文时，Uwakweh 似乎同样关心谁的声音以及哪些个人和集体身份重要的问题。第一部分包括对 Biafran 冲突中妇女能动性的分析（Jessie Sagawa，第 1 章），在殖民地罗德西亚对 Chimurenga 的性别反殖民抵抗（Tendai Mangena，第 2 章），战争如何改变了后殖民时期安哥拉妇女在私人和公共领域的角色（P. Julie Papaioannou，第 4 章），以及后殖民法语区喀麦隆妇女在面对身体和结构性暴力时的自力更生和复原力（Paul N . 图埃，第 5 章）。第二部分讲述了战争的性别后果，讲述了乌干达北部女兵的创伤（Uwakweh，第 6 章），以及胡图族妇女在卢旺达种族灭绝后被承认为幸存者的斗争（Emilie Diouf，第 7 章）。三章不是针对特定国家的。相反，他们试图通过否认人格、国家身份或两者来将人类痛苦的性别形式理论化。Nanjala Nyabola（第 9 章）揭示了女性和男性在寻求合法难民保护时表现出脆弱性的必要性。Moussa Issifou（第 8 章）提醒读者，在受害者的暴力叙述与施暴者的证词之间，在道德上和敏感地调解争议领域的重要性。Melissa R. Root（第 3 章）对政治精英如何将女性塑造为受害者的话语影响以及国家暴力被嫁接到女性身体上并经常通过女性身体进行纪念的方式进行了理论化。综合起来，这三章提醒读者，战争和国家的命令刻在人体上，这是女权主义学者长期关注的问题，她们很少考虑战争是如何写在非洲身体上的，更不用说非洲妇女的身体了。非洲妇女在火中为西方学者提供了一种方式来进入关于战争、民族创伤、和妇女政治机构。仔细阅读这本由非洲妇女撰写并为非洲妇女撰写的论文集的细心读者将获得丰厚的回报。