Research Catalog

Title

After genocide : memory and reconciliation in Rwanda / Nicole Fox.

Author

Fox, Nicole

Publication

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

xv, 254 pages : maps (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the past can, in the shadow of mass death, be retraumatizing. So how can such momentous events be memorialized in a way that is productive and even healing for survivors? Genocide memorials tell a story about the past, preserve evidence of the violence that occurred, and provide emotional support to survivors. But the goal of amplifying survivors' voices can fade amid larger narratives entrenched in political motivations.0In After Genocide,Nicole Fox investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors decades after mass violence has ended. She examines how memorializations can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rwandans, Fox reveals their relationships to these spaces and uncovers those voices silenced by the dominant narrative-arguing that the erasure of such stories is an act of violence itself. The book probes the ongoing question of how to fit survivors in to the dominant narrative of healing and importantly demonstrates how memorials can shape possibilities for growth, national cohesion, reconciliation, and hope for the future.

Series Statement

Critical human rights

Uniform Title

Critical human rights.

Subject

• 1994
• Genocide > Rwanda
• Memorialization > Rwanda
• Memorials > Rwanda
• Memory > Sociological aspects
• Reconciliation
• Atrocities
• Genocide
• Memorialization
• Memorials
• Rwanda > History > Atrocities. > Civil War, 1994
• Rwanda

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The context of violence in Rwanda -- Memory landscapes after human rights violations -- The role of memory work in violence prevention -- Trauma and the stratification of collective memory -- Gendered violence and the politics of remembering and forgetting -- Survivors' lived experiences of reconciliation.

Call Number

Sc E 22-986

ISBN

• 9780299332204
• 0299332209

LCCN

2020047424

OCLC

1226799097

Author

Fox, Nicole, author.

Title

After genocide : memory and reconciliation in Rwanda / Nicole Fox.

Publisher

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical human rights

Critical human rights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1994

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-986