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Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History
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2010
Summary
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?
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1229-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4762-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Excess of Memory? No access
Chapter 02. Historical Preamble to Set the Scene No access
Chapter 03. Testimony, Literature, and Film as Vectors of Memory No access
Chapter 04. The Hospitality of Listening as Interruption No access
Chapter 05. Staging the Ob-Scene No access
Chapter 06. Becoming Heirs and Going on Haunted No access
Chapter 07. We Came, We Saw . . . We Listened No access
Chapter 08. Belated Witnessing and Preemptive Positioning No access
Chapter 09. Between Highlights and Shadows: Tadjo’s Entries No access
Chapter 10. Writing as Haunting Pollination: Lamko’s Butterfly No access
Chapter 11. Polyvocal Dismembering: Diop’s Remembering of Murambi No access
Chapter 12. No Neutral Shooting No access
Chapter 13. Close-up on Some Recurrent Facts and Figures No access
Chapter 14. A Pedagogy Against Forgetting That Sometimes Forgets Itself No access
Chapter 15. Historical and Contextual Trompe-l’oeil No access
Chapter 16. Ob-Scene Off-Screened: A Genocide Off-Camera No access
Chapter 17. The Heir or the Return of the Off-Screened No access
Chapter 18. Testimony, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Era of Gacaca No access
