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Rwanda Genocide Stories
Nicki Hitchcott
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Description for Rwanda Genocide Stories
Hardcover. A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Focusing on a large and original corpus of creative writing by African authors, including writers from Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction After 1994 examines the positionality of authors and their texts in relation to the genocide. How do issues of `ethnicity', nationality, geographical location and family history affect the ways in which creative writers respond to what happened in 1994? And how do such factors lead to authors and their texts being positioned by others? The book is organized around the principal subject positions created by the genocide, categories that have particular connotations and have become fraught with political tension and ambiguity in the context of post-genocide Rwanda. Through analysis of the figures of tourists, witnesses, survivors, victims and perpetrators, the book identifies the ways in which readers of genocide stories are compelled to reevaluate their knowledge of Rwanda and take an active role in commemorative processes: as self-critical tourists, ethical witnesses, judges or culpable bystanders, we are encouraged to acknowledge and assume our own responsibility for what happened in 1994.
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381946
SKU
V9781781381946
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About Nicki Hitchcott
Nicki Hitchcott is Professor in French at the University of St Andrews.
Reviews for Rwanda Genocide Stories
'Nicki Hitchcott's comprehensive and beautifully structured account of fiction published in the two decades following the genocide [...] is the first book to consider the full extent of (largely ignored) Rwandan fictional writing in a sustained manner, alongside more well-known, internationally circulating texts by visitors to Rwanda.' 'The resulting work is exceptional in its range and consistent focus.' `Throughout Rwanda Genocide Stories Hitchcott's comparisons offer ample material for insights that will set the agenda for future research.' `For now, the critical field is significantly richer for [Hitchcott's] intervention drawing on fiction across English and French.' Zoe Norridge, Research in African Literatures 'Insightful, thoroughly researched, and exceptionally engaging [...] Hitchcott's Rwanda Genocide Stories offers so much in addition to the excellent literary analysis it presents. The book is replete with rich historical and contextual detail, compellingly argued and strongly interdisciplinary.' Ayala Maurer-Prager, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies 'This book provides a most compelling examination of the link between fictional writing and the memories of a tragedy that `cannot be encapsulated in a single narrative' (p. 158).' Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, French Studies Reviews 'Rwanda Genocide Stories is an excellent vehicle for bringing a group of largely overlooked writers with varied, complex perspectives on genocide to an English-speaking, academic audience.' David Whitehouse, Francospheres