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Informationen zum Autor Giorgia Donà is Co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK. Zusammenfassung 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over twenty years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide’s social history. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Chapter 1 Introduction: narrating genocide and the genocide narrative Introduction Narrating genocides: victims, perpetrators and the marginalised others The formation of the genocide master–narrative The constellation of genocide narratives The Rwandan genocide and Rwanda Studies Situating narratives methodologically Conclusion Chapter 2 The formation of the foundational genocide master - narrative Introduction The formation of the master-narrative of the Genocide against the Tutsi The genocide as the foundational master-narrative The counter master-narrative of war The marginalised voices Conclusion Chapter 3 Reframing culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group Introduction Naming culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group Revisiting moral culpability through ordinary morality The narrative of national unity and reconciliation: everyday relations and values Conclusion Chapter 4 Revisiting the figure of the heroic rescuer: communal rescue, care and resistance Introduction Naming the public figure of the rescuer: individual, exceptional, heroic From exceptional heroes to communities of care The communal rescue narrative: care and resistance The ambivalent legacy of rescuing Revisiting the figure of the heroic saviour Conclusion Chapter 5 Families of mixed ethnic backgrounds: the intimate burden of those caught in-between the politics of ethnic identity Introduction The erasure of the 'mixed' constituent in public narratives Rethinking the proxy categories of rescapé , génocidaire and orphelin du génocide Caught in-between: narrating the intimate burden of 'mixed' belonging The narrative legacy of the genocide Articulating and reclaiming the 'mixed' Conclusion Chapter 6 Marginalisation and survival of the other minority group Introduction Naming the outside onlooker: the Twa Questioning the onlooker narrative: the insider and the struggle for survival Post-genocide narratives: from autochthones to historically marginalised Decentering the genocide narrative: national progress, vulnerability and material survival Conclusion Chapter 7 Civilian returnees: intra-ethnic differences and continuities with the past and exile Introduction The Hamitic narrative: histories of mobility and belonging The hegemony of the RPF-led national narrative and the diverse stories of the civilian returnees Revisiting the narrative of the 'new' Rwanda: continuities with the past and exile Conclusion Chapter 8 The revised constellation of genocide narratives and the untold social history of genocides Introduction The marginalised voices in the revised constellation of genocide narratives Narrative engagement: agency and dialogical strategies Rewriting the social history of the genocide that took place in Rwanda Expanding and applying the constellation of genocide narratives Conclusion Glossary References ...
