Rwanda After Genocide - Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth

Drawing on Rwandan genocide survivor testimonies, this book offers a new approach to psychological trauma that considers both the positive and negative consequences.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Defying silence, defying theory; 2. Postcolonial posttraumatic growth in Rwandan men; 3. Rwanda's women and posttraumatic individualism; 4. Communal men and agentic women: posttraumatic growth at the collective level; 5. What is really unspeakable? Gender and posttraumatic growth at the international level; Conclusion.

About the author

Caroline Williamson Sinalo is Lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork. Awarded her Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in 2014, she has published numerous articles on the lives and experiences of Rwandan genocide survivors, notably on the topic of posttraumatic growth. Her Ph.D., funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award, was carried out in partnership with the Aegis Trust charity, and involved spending a year working in Rwanda at the national archive. Her collaboration with the Aegis Trust has since continued and she has twice received Aegis Research, Policy and Higher Education (RPHE) funding. Williamson Sinalo's research has also been supported by the Irish Research Council (IRC).

Summary

In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, around 1 million people were brutally murdered. Through analysing their testimonies, this book explores the ways Rwandans have rebuilt their lives, paying particular attention to the relationship between posttraumatic growth and gender and examining it within the wider frames of colonialism and cultural practices.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Caroline (University College Co Williamson Sinalo, Caroline (University College Cork) Williamson Sinalo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108426138
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42613-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, African History, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing