Alexandre Dauge-Roth

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda (eBook, PDF)

Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors, to films such as Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, the arts of witnessing are varied, comprehensive, and compelling. Alexandre Dauge-Roth compares the specific potential and the limits of each medium to craft unique responses to the genocide and instill in us its haunting legacy. In the wake of genocide, urgent questions arise: How do survivors both claim their shared humanity and speak the radically personal and violent experience of their past? How do authors and filmmakers make inconceivable trauma accessible to a society that will always remain foreign to their experience? How are we transformed by the genocide through these various modes of listening, viewing, and reading?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216249252
• Artikelnr.: 75137735

Autorenporträt

Alexandre Dauge-Roth is associate professor of French at Bates College.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION 1. Excess of Memory? 2. Historical Preamble to Set the Scene
3. Testimony, Literature, and Film as Vectors of Memory PART ONE: The
Testimonial Encounter 4. The Hospitality of Listening as Interruption 5.
Staging the Ob-Scene 6. Becoming Heirs and Going on Haunted PART TWO:
Dismembering Remembering: "Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Remember" 7. We
Came, We Saw... We Listened 8. Belated Witnessing and Preemptive
Positioning 9. Between Highlights and Shadows: Tadjo's Entries 10. Writing
as Haunting Pollination: Lamko's Butterfly 11. Polyvocal Dismembering:
Diop's Remembering of Murambi PART THREE: Screening Memory and (Un)Framing
Forgetting: Filming Genocide and its Aftermath in Rwanda 12. No Neutral
Shooting 13. Close-up on some Recurrent Facts and Figures 14. A Pedagogy
Against Forgetting that Sometimes Forgets Itself 15. Historical and
Contextual Trompe-l'il 16. Ob-Scene Off-Screened: A Genocide Off-Camera
17. The Heir or the Return of the Off-Screened EPILOGUE: On Turning the
Page 18. Testimony, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Era of Gacaca