1847607284     

Navigating cultural memory : commemoration and narrative in postgenocide Rwanda / David Mwambari

Mwambari, David [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] [© 2023]

xx, 310 Seiten ; 25 cm

Englisch

Introduction -- Commemorating the Past and the Evolution of Concepts in Memory Studies -- Rwandan Narratives and Rwandan Pasts -- Shaping the Emergence and Evolution of the Genocide Master Narrative -- Imprinting the Land with the Materials of Memory -- Localizing Commemoration and Individual Responses to the Master Narrative -- Expressing Memory after Genocide: The Art of Commemoration -- The Media, Commemoration, and the Enforcement of the Master Narrative -- Conclusion: The Malleability of Memory and Reflections on the Future of Knowledge Production on Rwanda and in Memory Studies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index

Erscheint auch als: Navigating cultural memory / Mwambari, David [GNDNR:1165352664] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-094230-4 (hardback)

978-0-19-094232-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2023004666

LB 51548      Ähnliche Literatur

DT450.435

967.57104/31

LOC-SH: Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century ; Genocide -- Rwanda -- Psychological aspects ; Collective memory -- Rwanda

"A friend of mine asked me to accompany him to visit a young woman in her twenties named Kayitesi. At the time, in April 2007, Kayitesi lived in rural Kigali with two siblings. Kayitesi's parents and many of her relatives were killed during the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. The genocide took place in the central and eastern African country of Rwanda when radical Hutu youth militias and Hutu political elites targeted and killed the Tutsi for about three months, between April and July. The Hutus and some foreigners who protected the Tutsi or opposed the genocidal violence were also killed"--