Rwanda Genocide Stories : Fiction After 1994, Paperback by Hitchcott, Nicki, ...

Rwanda Genocide Stories : Fiction After 1994, Paperback by Hitchcott, Nicki, ISBN 1800348878, ISBN-13 9781800348875, Brand New, Free shipping in the USDuring what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were brutally massacred between April and July 1994. This book presents a critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Focusingon a large and original corpus of creative writing by African authors, including writers from Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction After 1994 examines the positionality of authors and their texts in relation to the genocide. How do issues of 'ethnicity', nationality, geographical location andfamily history affect the ways in which creative writers respond to what happened in 1994? And how do such factors lead to authors and their texts being positioned by others? Th is organized around the principal subject positions created by the genocide, categories that have particularconnotations and have become fraught with political tension and ambiguity in the context of post-genocide Rwanda. Through analysis of the figures of tourists, witnesses, survivors, victims and perpetrators, th identifies the ways in which readers of genocide stories are compelled to reevaluatetheir knowledge of Rwanda and take an active role in commemorative processes: as self-critical tourists, ethical witnesses, judges or culpable bystanders, we are encouraged to acknowledge and assume our own responsibility for what happened in 1994.