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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822256003321

Autore

Dauge-Roth Alexandre <1967->

Titolo

Writing and filming the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda : dismembering and remembering traumatic history / / Alexandre Dauge-Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2010

ISBN

1-282-56193-6

9786612561931

0-7391-4762-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

Disciplina

967.57104/31

Soggetti

Tutsi (African people) - Crimes against - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Atrocities

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Personal narratives

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Literature and the war

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Motion pictures and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (p. 285-286).

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The testimonial encounter -- pt. 2. Dismembering remembering "Rwanda: writing as a duty to remember" -- pt. 3. Screening memory and (un)framing forgetting : filming genocide in Rwanda.

Sommario/riassunto

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.