Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda - Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History

Informationen zum Autor Alexandre Dauge-Roth is associate professor of French at Bates College. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION1. Excess of Memory?2. Historical Preamble to Set the Scene3. Testimony, Literature, and Film as Vectors of MemoryPART ONE: The Testimonial Encounter4. The Hospitality of Listening as Interruption5. Staging the Ob-Scene6. Becoming Heirs and Going on HauntedPART TWO: Dismembering Remembering: "Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Remember"7. We Came, We Saw... We Listened8. Belated Witnessing and Preemptive Positioning9. Between Highlights and Shadows: Tadjo's Entries10. Writing as Haunting Pollination: Lamko's Butterfly11. Polyvocal Dismembering: Diop's Remembering of MurambiPART THREE: Screening Memory and (Un)Framing Forgetting: Filming Genocide and its Aftermath in Rwanda12. No Neutral Shooting13. Close-up on some Recurrent Facts and Figures14. A Pedagogy Against Forgetting that Sometimes Forgets Itself15. Historical and Contextual Trompe-l'œil16. Ob-Scene Off-Screened: A Genocide Off-Camera17. The Heir or the Return of the Off-ScreenedEPILOGUE: On Turning the Page18. Testimony, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Era of Gacaca

Product details

• Authors: Alexandre Dauge-Roth
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780739112298
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1229-8
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Africa / East, Rwanda, African History, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing