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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 01. Excess of Memory?; Chapter 02. Historical Preamble to Set the Scene; Chapter 03. Testimony, Literature, and Film as Vectors of Memory; Part I. THE TESTIMONIAL ENCOUNTER; Chapter 04. The Hospitality of Listening as Interruption; Chapter 05. Staging the Ob-Scene; Chapter 06. Becoming Heirs and Going on Haunted; Part II. DISMEMBERING REMEMBERING: "RWANDA: WRITING AS A DUTY TO REMEMBER"; Chapter 07. We Came, We Saw ... We Listened; Chapter 08. Belated Witnessing and Preemptive Positioning |
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Chapter 09. Between Highlights and Shadows: Tadjo's EntriesChapter 10. Writing as Haunting Pollination: Lamko's Butterfly; Chapter 11. Polyvocal Dismembering: Diop's Remembering of Murambi; Part III. SCREENING MEMORY, (UN)FRAMING FORGETTING: FILMING GENOCIDE IN RWANDA; Chapter 12. No Neutral Shooting; Chapter 13. Close-up on Some Recurrent Facts and Figures; Chapter 14. A Pedagogy Against Forgetting That Sometimes Forgets Itself; Chapter 15. Historical and Contextual Trompe-l'oeil; Chapter 16. Ob-Scene Off-Screened: A Genocide Off-Camera; Chapter 17. The Heir or the Return of the Off-Screened |
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Epilogue: ON TURNING THE PAGEChapter 18. Testimony, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Era of Gacaca; Bibliography; Filmography; Index; About the Author |
| 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 |
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Print version record |
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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Atrocities
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Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against
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War and literature
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War and motion pictures
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116783
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Literature and the war
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Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Motion pictures and the war
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Rwanda
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739147627 |
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0739147625 |
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1282561936 |
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9781282561939 |
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