Writing and filming the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda : dismembering and remembering traumatic history / Alexandre Dauge-Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauge-Roth, Alexandre, 1967-

Series:

After the empire.

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tutsi (African people)--Crimes against--Rwanda--History--20th century.

Tutsi (African people).

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.

Rwanda.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Personal narratives.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Literature and the war.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Motion pictures and the war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda is a groundbreaking study that puts into dialogue testimonies, literary fictions, and cinematic representations bearing witness to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The analysis of the narrative strategies used by survivors, authors, and filmmakers in their attempt to fulfill the duty to remember leads Dauge-Roth to explore the roles that communities and individuals must play in acknowledging survivors' radically different past and their present quest for a shared humanity.

Contents:

pt. 1. The testimonial encounter

pt. 2. Dismembering remembering "Rwanda: writing as a duty to remember"

pt. 3. Screening memory and (un)framing forgetting : filming genocide in Rwanda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (p. 285-286).

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-56193-6

9786612561931

0-7391-4762-5

OCLC:

700699435