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Performing the Nation

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Description for Performing the Nation Paperback. How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of justice and reconciliation? This title provides a satisfying analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative, and memorialization. Num Pages: 264 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; AN; HBTZ; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 360.
A dance begins beneath the out-stretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearings on the one hundred days of bloodshed known as the Rwandan Genocide, is called into session. This is what the ongoing process of reconciliation looks like nearly twenty years after the brutal, orchestrated murder of almost one million people in Rwanda. But this scene demands questions: How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857421081
SKU
V9780857421081
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About Ananda Breed
Ananda Breed is a senior lecturer of theater studies at the University of East London, UK.

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