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From surviving to living : voice, trauma and witness in Rwanda Women's writing

Title: From surviving to living : voice, trauma and witness in Rwanda Women's writing / Catherine Gilbert.
Author: Gilbert, Catherine, 1982-
Publication: Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, [2018]

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Description

294 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

During the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, acts of extreme violence were committed against women. This book presents a critical study of Rwandan women's published testimonies, seeking to understand how Rwandan women genocide survivors respond to and communicate such experiences. Drawing on trauma theory, Holocaust studies and critical approaches to testimony, From Surviving to Living examines the ways in which the genocide is remembered in both individual and collective memory and the challenges Rwandan women face in the ongoing process of surviving trauma. Through close analysis of women's testimonies written predominantly in French, and a smaller number in English, this book underlines the necessity of developing new ways of listening to the diversity of Rwandan women's voices, in order not only to gain greater insight into how traumatised individuals remember, but also to hear the challenge they pose to conventional Western modes of responding to trauma.--Back cover

Series Statement

"Horizons anglophones". Série PoCoPages

Uniform Title

Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série PoCoPages.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-291)

Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction : Trauma and Testimony in the Rwandan -- Context -- Testimonial Narrative and Genocide -- Rwandan Women's Testimonial Literature : A Growing Corpus -- The Question of Ethnicity -- Genealogy of Trauma -- Trauma and Testimony -- Testimony and Voice -- Challenging Trauma Theory -- The Holocaust Frame -- Synopsis -- The Figure of the Witness -- Emergence of the Figure of the Witness -- Categories of Witness -- A Duty of Memory -- Levels of Witnessing in Rwandan Women's Testimonies -- Survivor Guilt -- A Hierarchy of Suffering ? -- Gathering Others' Stories -- The Role of the Reader-Witness -- Giving Voice to Trauma -- Traumatic Memory : An Unrepresentable Excess? -- Traumatic Symptoms -- Cultural Translation -- Sensory Responses to Trauma -- Addressing the International Community -- Individual Perception of Temporality -- Reconstructing the Narrative through Individual Moments -- Situating the Individual within the Collective? -- Collaborating with the Witness -- Testimony as Dialogue -- Collaboration in Rwanda Women's Testimonial -- Literature -- Textual Framing -- Mujawayo and Belhaddad : An Open Dialogue -- Patrick May : Liberation or Appropriation? -- Collaboration as Survival ? -- Speaking Silence -- Notion of the 'Unsayable' -- Thinking About Silence -- Gendered Silence -- Cultural Silencing in Rwanda -- International Silence -- Breaking the Silence -- Writing Silence -- Space of Double Impossibility ? -- Front Surviving to Living -- Survie, témoignage, vie -- Projection into the Future -- Selective Remembering -- Healing through Narrative -- The Role of the Community -- Community Organisations -- Gacaca -- Confronting the Perpetrators -- Collective Guilt -- Partial Truths -- An Impossible Forgiveness ?

Call Number

ReCAP 20-2596

ISBN

9782367812687
2367812683

OCLC

1041861550

Author

Gilbert, Catherine, 1982- author.

Title

From surviving to living : voice, trauma and witness in Rwanda Women's writing / Catherine Gilbert.

Publisher

Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

"Horizons anglophones". Série PoCoPages

Collection "Horizons anglophones." Série PoCoPages.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-291)

Chronological Term

1994

Research Call Number

ReCAP 20-2596

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