Narrating Itsembabwoko : when literature becomes testimony of genocide / Josias Semujanga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Semujanga, Josias, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature (French)--20th century--History and criticism.

African literature (French).

African literature (French)--21st century--History and criticism.

Genocide in literature.

Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century.

Genocide.

Rwanda.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bern : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

"This book is about the idea of a testimony of genocide by narratives including fiction and storytelling and testimonies about the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994"--Preface. Includes discussions of Aîné des orphelins, by Tierno Monénembo; Moisson de crânes, by Abdourahman Waberi; Murambi, le livre des ossements, by Boubacar Boris Diop; Ombre d'Imana, by Véronique Tadjo; Murekatete, by Monique Ilboudo; La phalène des collines, by Koulsy Lamko; Le feu sous la soutane, by Benjamin Sehene; Inyenzi ou les cafards, by Scholastique Mukasonga; and, Shake hands with the devil, by Roméo Dallaire.

Contents:

Introduction : Narratives of genocide, emotion and the reader

The narratives seed of the genocide

The oldest orphan : the child's voice telling the unthinkable

Harvest of skulls : recycling the fragments of the Holocaust

Murambi, the book of bones : polyphonic voices and testimony

The shadow of Imana : traveling over the maze of genocide

Murekatete : the broken brotherhood and the inability to love

The hill moth : Eros and Thanatos

Five under the cassock : the question of collective guilt

Inyenzi or the cockroaches : trans-generational memory

Shake hands with the devil : humanitarian rhetoric and genocide testimony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783034320573

3034320574

OCLC:

964326395

Publisher Number:

99969567565