Zoë Norridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 358949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë Norridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë |
| FAMILY NAME | Norridge |
| SIGNATURE | NORRIDGE Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and Foreign Languages University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3698-223X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing as Living Archive: An Interview with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Rwandan writer who moved to France aged fifteen, after surviving the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Critically acclaimed in the Francophone world, her collections of short stories, two novels, and a testimony have won numerous international prizes, including the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie, Prix Kourouma, and most recently, Prix Franz-Hessel. Her work explores varied perspectives on genocide, the end…
Sweet Like Honey: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community
The Paths that Undo Me; Les chemins qui me séparent
A rift stretches out between me and myself. I’m torn between what I don’t know. Lost, searching for traces of a tongue that hollows the earth, looking for my centre. Which track leads to these drie
Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda
This essay describes and reflects on an encounter between Argentinian photographer Lucila Quieto and four Rwandan photographers who grew up in the Imbabazi orphanage on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All five photographers lost their parents as children through political violence. And all are dedicated to using the storytelling potential of the camera to advocate for social justice in Argentina and Rwanda. However the …
What Is Seen and What Is Said
This special issue of Wasafiri, exploring human rights cultures, opens with a poem about a photograph. Maria Teresa Andruetto explores the moment when contemporary photographer Sandra Siviero opens
The Faces We Lost . Directed by Pitor Cieplak. 2017. Film: Review by Zoe Norridge
Papaoutai’? Family memory, parental loss and Rwandan artists today
This article explores how family framings of childhood experiences of violence shape Rwandan artistic responses to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. It examines work by both child survivors of genocide and Rwandans who grew up in exile. This enables consideration of the longer legacies of violence that began against the Tutsi nearly 60 years ago, alongside the more recent aftermath of genocide. While child survivor narratives frame memory as f…
Photography, Film and Visibly Wounded Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
Over the past two decades survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda have been represented by an increasingly varied range of photographers and filmmakers. International photographers responding to the aftermath of this violence have tended to focus on bearing witness to a genocide that the world failed to acknowledge at the time. One strategy for doing this has been to foreground a relatively small number of visibly wounded genoc…
Journeying into Rwanda
This chapter argues that Philip Gourevitch, through his extraordinary ability to personalize and question dominant narratives, makes a unique contribution to complicating human rights debates in a manner that continues to shape both literary and scholarly representations of Rwanda. Literary accounts of the genocide in Rwanda repeatedly place the violence within a global context. Gourevitch, who dedicates We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Wil…
Ways of knowing civil war: Human rights and the traction of complicity in A minatta F orna's T he H ired M an
Perceiving Pain in African Literature
Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as an inevitably pained continent? Perceiving Pain in African Literature argues that the literary text has a particular role to play in contesting and re-working the personal, social and political meanings of pain. Drawing on …
Tracing the Visible and the Invisible through African Literature, Publishing, Film, and Performance Art
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love
In the 1990s, women's writing about war in Africa took a new turn as Yvonne Vera and Calixthe Beyala began to publish texts interweaving explicit sexual descriptions and graphic violence. With their examination of sexual relationships in the context of the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean civil wars, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love continue this trend. Why is it that female African writers are cu…
From Wellington to Bougainville: Migrating Meanings and the Joys of Approximation in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip
First published in 2006, Lloyd Jones’ novel about village life on the Pacific island of Bougainville has been the subject of enthusiastic critical reception by the international media. However, it has rarely been discussed in the academic context of Papua New Guinean literature. This article will examine how the New Zealand-born novelist empathizes with his principle character, a young girl from the island, and what role this gesture of identific…
Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space
This article examines Hackney Museum's exhibition Abolition '07 and asks how the multicultural nature of this London borough affected attempts to memorialise the abolition of the slave trade – a trade which has had a direct impact on so many of the local residents. Analysing the exhibition materials and referring to the creative writing produced by young visitors, Hackney Council encouraged an ‘ethics of empathy’ to enable a collective response t…
Bleeding Scars from Rwanda: The Interplay of Text and Image in Alain Kazinierakis and Yolande Mukagasana's Les Blessures du silence
Much of the photography and literature published in response to the Rwandan genocide focuses on catastrophic human damage and highly visual manifestations of suffering. This work, whilst essential to documenting the events and the aftermath of the killings, has been in danger of obscuring the individual person, a tendency which is exacerbated by international representations of `Africa' as a place of violence, illness and death. In Les Blessures …
ALT 26 War in African Literature Today
Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love
In the 1990s, women's writing about war in Africa took a new turn as Yvonne Vera and Calixthe Beyala began to publish texts interweaving explicit sexual descriptions and graphic violence. With their examination of sexual relationships in the context of the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean civil wars, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love continue this trend. Why is it that female African writers are cu…
Bleeding Scars from Rwanda: The Interplay of Text and Image in Alain Kazinierakis and Yolande Mukagasana's Les Blessures du silence
Much of the photography and literature published in response to the Rwandan genocide focuses on catastrophic human damage and highly visual manifestations of suffering. This work, whilst essential to documenting the events and the aftermath of the killings, has been in danger of obscuring the individual person, a tendency which is exacerbated by international representations of `Africa' as a place of violence, illness and death. In Les Blessures …
Papaoutai’? Family memory, parental loss and Rwandan artists today
This article explores how family framings of childhood experiences of violence shape Rwandan artistic responses to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. It examines work by both child survivors of genocide and Rwandans who grew up in exile. This enables consideration of the longer legacies of violence that began against the Tutsi nearly 60 years ago, alongside the more recent aftermath of genocide. While child survivor narratives frame memory as f…
Photography, Film and Visibly Wounded Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
Over the past two decades survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda have been represented by an increasingly varied range of photographers and filmmakers. International photographers responding to the aftermath of this violence have tended to focus on bearing witness to a genocide that the world failed to acknowledge at the time. One strategy for doing this has been to foreground a relatively small number of visibly wounded genoc…
Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda
This essay describes and reflects on an encounter between Argentinian photographer Lucila Quieto and four Rwandan photographers who grew up in the Imbabazi orphanage on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All five photographers lost their parents as children through political violence. And all are dedicated to using the storytelling potential of the camera to advocate for social justice in Argentina and Rwanda. However the …
From Wellington to Bougainville: Migrating Meanings and the Joys of Approximation in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip
First published in 2006, Lloyd Jones’ novel about village life on the Pacific island of Bougainville has been the subject of enthusiastic critical reception by the international media. However, it has rarely been discussed in the academic context of Papua New Guinean literature. This article will examine how the New Zealand-born novelist empathizes with his principle character, a young girl from the island, and what role this gesture of identific…
Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space
This article examines Hackney Museum's exhibition Abolition '07 and asks how the multicultural nature of this London borough affected attempts to memorialise the abolition of the slave trade – a trade which has had a direct impact on so many of the local residents. Analysing the exhibition materials and referring to the creative writing produced by young visitors, Hackney Council encouraged an ‘ethics of empathy’ to enable a collective response t…
ALT 26 War in African Literature Today
Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space
This article examines Hackney Museum's exhibition Abolition '07 and asks how the multicultural nature of this London borough affected attempts to memorialise the abolition of the slave trade – a trade which has had a direct impact on so many of the local residents. Analysing the exhibition materials and referring to the creative writing produced by young visitors, Hackney Council encouraged an ‘ethics of empathy’ to enable a collective response t…
Bleeding Scars from Rwanda: The Interplay of Text and Image in Alain Kazinierakis and Yolande Mukagasana's Les Blessures du silence
Much of the photography and literature published in response to the Rwandan genocide focuses on catastrophic human damage and highly visual manifestations of suffering. This work, whilst essential to documenting the events and the aftermath of the killings, has been in danger of obscuring the individual person, a tendency which is exacerbated by international representations of `Africa' as a place of violence, illness and death. In Les Blessures …
From Wellington to Bougainville: Migrating Meanings and the Joys of Approximation in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip
First published in 2006, Lloyd Jones’ novel about village life on the Pacific island of Bougainville has been the subject of enthusiastic critical reception by the international media. However, it has rarely been discussed in the academic context of Papua New Guinean literature. This article will examine how the New Zealand-born novelist empathizes with his principle character, a young girl from the island, and what role this gesture of identific…
Sex as Synecdoche: Intimate Languages of Violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love
In the 1990s, women's writing about war in Africa took a new turn as Yvonne Vera and Calixthe Beyala began to publish texts interweaving explicit sexual descriptions and graphic violence. With their examination of sexual relationships in the context of the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean civil wars, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love continue this trend. Why is it that female African writers are cu…
Perceiving Pain in African Literature
Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as an inevitably pained continent? Perceiving Pain in African Literature argues that the literary text has a particular role to play in contesting and re-working the personal, social and political meanings of pain. Drawing on …
Tracing the Visible and the Invisible through African Literature, Publishing, Film, and Performance Art
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Ways of knowing civil war: Human rights and the traction of complicity in A minatta F orna's T he H ired M an
Journeying into Rwanda
This chapter argues that Philip Gourevitch, through his extraordinary ability to personalize and question dominant narratives, makes a unique contribution to complicating human rights debates in a manner that continues to shape both literary and scholarly representations of Rwanda. Literary accounts of the genocide in Rwanda repeatedly place the violence within a global context. Gourevitch, who dedicates We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Wil…
The Faces We Lost . Directed by Pitor Cieplak. 2017. Film: Review by Zoe Norridge
Papaoutai’? Family memory, parental loss and Rwandan artists today
This article explores how family framings of childhood experiences of violence shape Rwandan artistic responses to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. It examines work by both child survivors of genocide and Rwandans who grew up in exile. This enables consideration of the longer legacies of violence that began against the Tutsi nearly 60 years ago, alongside the more recent aftermath of genocide. While child survivor narratives frame memory as f…
Photography, Film and Visibly Wounded Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
Over the past two decades survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda have been represented by an increasingly varied range of photographers and filmmakers. International photographers responding to the aftermath of this violence have tended to focus on bearing witness to a genocide that the world failed to acknowledge at the time. One strategy for doing this has been to foreground a relatively small number of visibly wounded genoc…
The Paths that Undo Me; Les chemins qui me séparent
A rift stretches out between me and myself. I’m torn between what I don’t know. Lost, searching for traces of a tongue that hollows the earth, looking for my centre. Which track leads to these drie
Photographing Loss: Drawing on Argentine Photography in Rwanda
This essay describes and reflects on an encounter between Argentinian photographer Lucila Quieto and four Rwandan photographers who grew up in the Imbabazi orphanage on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All five photographers lost their parents as children through political violence. And all are dedicated to using the storytelling potential of the camera to advocate for social justice in Argentina and Rwanda. However the …
What Is Seen and What Is Said
This special issue of Wasafiri, exploring human rights cultures, opens with a poem about a photograph. Maria Teresa Andruetto explores the moment when contemporary photographer Sandra Siviero opens
Sweet Like Honey: Twa Photographers Reframing the Past, Present and Future in a Remote Rwandan Marginalised Community
Writing as Living Archive: An Interview with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Rwandan writer who moved to France aged fifteen, after surviving the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Critically acclaimed in the Francophone world, her collections of short stories, two novels, and a testimony have won numerous international prizes, including the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie, Prix Kourouma, and most recently, Prix Franz-Hessel. Her work explores varied perspectives on genocide, the end…
Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)