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- Uses an Afropolitan cultural framework to understand the Rwandan genocide
- Analyzes works by francophone African writers that have yet to be translated into English
- Connects anglophone readers to francophone trauma studies research
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. This work emphasizes the Afropolitan cultural frame in which the texts were conceived and written. Instead of using Western and Eurocentric tropes, this volume looks at a so-called ‘minority trauma’: an African conflict situated in a collectivist society and written about by writers from African origin. This approach enables a more situated study, in which it becomes possible to draw out the local notions of ubuntu, oral testimonies, mourning traditions, healing and storytelling strategies, and the presence of the ‘invisible’. As these texts are written in French and to date not all of them have been translated into English, most academic research has been done in French. This book thus assists inconnecting English-speaking readers not only to a set of texts written in French with significant literary and cultural value, but also to francophone trauma studies research.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Anna-Marie de Beer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide
Book Subtitle: Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire
Authors: Anna-Marie de Beer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42093-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42092-5Published: 24 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42095-6Published: 25 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42093-2Published: 23 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 300
Topics: African Culture, African History, Conflict Studies, Cultural Heritage, War Crimes