The Duty of Memory
A Solidarity of Voices after the Rwandan Genocide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Audrey Small (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-100 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1353/prg.2007.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W4231452948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
In 2000, the publication of ten texts marked the completion of a two-year project entitled Le Devoir de mémoire, which had brought together ten writers from across Africa to write in response to the Rwandan genocide. This article looks at how the project was posited from the outset as a specifically African response, setting this in the context of older problems of voice, selfrepresentation and the renegotiation of miswritten histories in the postcolonial context. This aspect of the project is made all the more urgent by the actuality of the genocide, and the period of residence the writers spent in Rwanda in 1998. This article argues that the project succeeded in creating a space in which Africa as a whole is made part of the genocide, and vice versa, by raising complex questions of responsibility and by drawing on familiar themes in modern African writing, namely history, memory and identity; exile and dislocation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Duty · Genocide · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |