1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828986103321

Autore

Burnet Jennie E

Titolo

Genocide lives in us [[electronic resource] ] : women, memory, and silence in Rwanda / / Jennie E. Burnet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012

ISBN

0-299-28643-6

1-283-69224-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Disciplina

967.57104/31

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda

Women in public life - Rwanda

Women - Rwanda - Social conditions

Rwanda History 1994-

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Kinyarwanda Usage and Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Social Classification, State Power, and Violence -- 2. Remembering Genocide: Lived Memory and National Mourning -- 3. Amplified Silence: Hegemony, Memory, and Silence's Multiple Meanings -- 4. Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in the Aftermath of Genocide -- 5. Defining Coexistence and Reconciliation in the New Rwanda -- 6. Paths to Reconciliation -- 7. Reconciliation, Justice, and Amplified Silence -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.