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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.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Excess of Memory?
2. Historical Preamble to Set the Scene
3. Testimony, Literature, and Film as Vectors of Memory
PART ONE: The Testimonial Encounter
4. The Hospitality of Listening as Interruption
5. Staging the Ob-Scene
6. Becoming Heirs and Going on Haunted
PART TWO: Dismembering Remembering: "Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Remember"
7. We Came, We Saw. We Listened
8. Belated Witnessing and Preemptive Positioning
9. Between Highlights and Shadows: Tadjo's Entries
10. Writing as Haunting Pollination: Lamko's Butterfly
11. Polyvocal Dismembering: Diop's Remembering of Murambi
PART THREE: Screening Memory and (Un)Framing Forgetting: Filming Genocide and its Aftermath in Rwanda
12. No Neutral Shooting
13. Close-up on some Recurrent Facts and Figures
14. A Pedagogy Against Forgetting that Sometimes Forgets Itself
15. Historical and Contextual Trompe-l'oil
16. Ob-Scene Off-Screened: A Genocide Off-Camera
17. The Heir or the Return of the Off-Screened
EPILOGUE: On Turning the Page
18. Testimony, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Era of Gacaca
About the author
Alexandre Dauge-Roth is associate professor of French at Bates College.
