Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243).
Contents:
Introduction : Narratives of genocide, emotion and the reader -- The narratives seed of the genocide -- The oldest orphan : the child's voice telling the unthinkable -- Harvest of skulls : recycling the fragments of the Holocaust -- Murambi, the book of bones : polyphonic voices and testimony -- The shadow of Imana : traveling over the maze of genocide -- Murekatete : the broken brotherhood and the inability to love -- The hill moth : Eros and Thanatos -- Five under the cassock : the question of collective guilt -- Inyenzi or the cockroaches : trans-generational memory -- Shake hands with the devil : humanitarian rhetoric and genocide testimony.
Summary:
"This book is about the idea of a testimony of genocide by narratives including fiction and storytelling and testimonies about the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994"--Preface. Includes discussions of Aîné des orphelins, by Tierno Monénembo; Moisson de crânes, by Abdourahman Waberi; Murambi, le livre des ossements, by Boubacar Boris Diop; Ombre d'Imana, by Véronique Tadjo; Murekatete, by Monique Ilboudo; La phalène des collines, by Koulsy Lamko; Le feu sous la soutane, by Benjamin Sehene; Inyenzi ou les cafards, by Scholastique Mukasonga; and, Shake hands with the devil, by Roméo Dallaire.
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