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Novels of genocide : remembering and forgetting the ethnic other in fictional Rwanda / Olivier Nyirubugara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nyirubugara, Olivier, author.
- Series:
- Memory traps ; Volume II.
- Memory Traps ; Volume II
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide--Rwanda.
- Genocide.
- Fiction--20th century.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, [The Netherlands] : Sidestone Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers who were eager to represent that genocide itself, its aftermath and, in some cases, the situation that they perceived as paving the way for it decades before it occurred. Unlike other parts of Africa, where the novel already had a deeply rooted tradition, the Rwandan novel is a recent phenomenon that dates back to the late 1990s. In this book, the author focuses on 10 Rwandan-authored novels of genocide, which he considers to be excellent memory texts that reveal a lot about memory processes in post-genocide Rwanda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 90-8890-433-2
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