Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda

Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History

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ID19888201
AuthorsAlexandre Dauge-Roth (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages291
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWriting and filming the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLexington Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/9780739147627
OpenAlexW4407746415
Open LibraryOL24099476M
ISBN9780739147627
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors, to films such as Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, the arts of witnessing are varied, comprehensive, and compelling. Alexandre Dauge-Roth compares the specific potential and the limits of each medium to craft unique responses to the genocide and instill in us its haunting legacy. In the wake of genocide, urgent questions arise: How do survivors both claim their shared humanity and speak the radically personal and violent experience of their past? How do authors and filmmakers make inconceivable trauma accessible to a society that will always remain foreign to their experience? How are we transformed by the genocide through these various modes of listening, viewing, and reading

Genocide · Political science · Cambodian History and Society · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · 1994 · 20th century · Africa · Atrocities · Civil War · crimes against · Literature and the war · Motion pictures and the war · Personal narratives · Rwanda · Tutsi (african people)

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