- Additional Authors
- Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "In 1994, the Akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that was an attempt to make partial amends. Abdourahman A. Waberi claims, "Language remains inadequate in accounting for the world and all its turpitudes, words can never be more than unstable crutches, staggering along . . . And yet, if we want to hold on to a glimmer of hope in the world, the only miraculous weapons we have at our disposal are these same clumsy supports." Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history."--
- Series Statement
- Global African voices
- Uniform Title
- Moisson de crânes. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Moisson de crânes.
- Subject
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN
- 9780253024411
- LCCN
- 2016020660
- OCLC
- ssj0001745829
- Author
Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965-
- Title
Harvest of skulls [electronic resource] / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic Thomas.
- Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
- Series
Global African voices
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Added Author
Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
- Other Form:
Print version: Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965- author. Harvest of skulls Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016 9780253024329 (DLC) 2016017816