| Description |
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 38 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 38.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Rwandan fiction -- Tourists -- Witnesses -- Survivors -- Victims -- Perpetrators -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"During what has become officially known as the Genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses to the 1994 genocide by authors inside and outside Rwanda. Focusing on a large and original corpus of creative writing by African authors, including writers from Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction After 1994 examines the positionality of authors and their texts in relation to the genocide. How do issues of 'ethnicity', nationality, geographical location and family history affect the ways in which creative writers respond to what happened in 1994? And how do such factors lead to authors and their texts being positioned by others? The book is organized around the principal subject positions created by the genocide, categories that have particular connotations and have become fraught with political tension and ambiguity in the context of post-genocide Rwanda. Through analysis of the figures of tourists, witnesses, survivors, victims and perpetrators, the book identifies the ways in which readers of genocide stories are compelled to reevaluate their knowledge of Rwanda and take an active role in commemorative processes: as self-critical tourists, ethical witnesses, judges or culpable bystanders we are encouraged to acknowledge and assume our own responsibility for what happened in 1994"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction -- History and criticism
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Genocide in literature.
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Rwandan literature (French) -- History and criticism
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African fiction -- History and criticism
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Genocide -- ethnology
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Genocide -- history
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
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African fiction.
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Genocide.
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Genocide in literature.
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Rwandan literature (French)
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Rwanda.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781384824 |
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1781384827 |
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