Navigating cultural memory : commemoration and narrative in postgenocide Rwanda / David Mwambari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mwambari, David, 1981- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Genocide.

Genocide--Rwanda--Psychological aspects.

Collective memory--Rwanda.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Navigating Cultural Memory' examines how a master narrative of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi evolved into a hegemonic narrative both in Rwanda and globally. Identifying key actors who shaped and responded to the evolution and enforcement of the master narrative in the first two decades after the genocide and civil war ended, it engages with important questions about collective memory, trauma, and power following violent and divisive events.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Complexities of Living after Mass Violence

1. Decolonial Approaches to Memory

2. Rwandan Narratives and Rwandan Pasts

3. Shaping the Emergence and Evolution of the Genocide Master Narrative

4. Imprinting the Land with the Materials of Memory

5. Localizing Commemoration and Individual Responses to the Master Narrative

6. Expressing Memory after Genocide: The Art of Commemoration

7. The Media, Commemoration, and the Enforcement of the Master Narrative

Conclusion: The Malleability of Memory and Reflections on the Future of Knowledge Production on Rwanda, Dignity, and in Memory Studies

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-094232-0

0-19-094233-9

0-19-094231-2