02488cam a22002777i 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002400082100003000106245007000136300001100206490005500217505001700272520144300289650006201732650003601794650006401830650005201894650003301946650002301979900001502002942001302017999001902030952016102049160520s2015    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a9781781381946  a1781381941  aSDU00aPN3503bH674 R 20151 aHitchcott, Nicki,920104910aRwanda genocide stories :bfiction after 1994 /cNicki Hitchcott.  a229 p.1 aContemporary French and francophone cultures ;v38  aHKBU Library8 a"During 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. Focusing on 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 and family 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? The book is organized around the principal subject positions created by the genocide, categories that have particular connotations 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, the book identifies the ways in which readers of genocide stories are compelled to reevaluate their 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." -- 0aGenocidezRwandaxFictionxHistory and criticism.9201050 0aGenocide in literature.9201051 0aRwandan literature (French)xHistory and criticism.9201052 0aAfrican fictionxHistory and criticism.920105312aGenocidexethnology.920105412aGenocidexhistory.  a = C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c106021d106021  00102lcc406PN3503 H674 R2015708CGB9278491aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-20e2l0oPN3503 H674 R 2015p1000369626r2025-08-20 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-20yGBE