L’infinie solitude du rescapé

L’infinie solitude du rescapé

The Endless Solitude of the SurvivorTo retake, in these few pages, the journey of encounter with the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda – a long journey of listening and writing that still goes on – means, above all, a new opportunity to convey the voices of survivors such as Marie, Esther, Théophila... among...

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Prif Awdur: Belhaddad, Souâd
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Cyhoeddwyd: 2009
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_190_0397RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2009-1-page-397?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.190.0397 L’infinie solitude du rescapé Belhaddad, Souâd2009 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 190 | 1 | 2009-02-03 | p. 397-406 | 2111-885X RHSHO_19019 The Endless Solitude of the SurvivorTo retake, in these few pages, the journey of encounter with the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda – a long journey of listening and writing that still goes on – means, above all, a new opportunity to convey the voices of survivors such as Marie, Esther, Théophila... among others. It is an opportunity to tell once more their limitless solitude.The experience acquired while working on this subject has taught the author that claiming to understand a survivor because one chooses to listen to his story, is a falsehood. The fact is that one cannot predict the actual effect of words, i.e. at times one is unable to hear or unlikely to believe their meaning. In the process of interpreting these reactions as being part of a defense mechanism, I discovered in Rwanda one of the world’s cruelest pains : the solitude of the survivor – a cureless pain !This text aims at trying to show how incredible this pain is. The term incredible here means something that one has “never heard of”, or “there is nothing like it”. While conducting her first interviews with Tutsi survivors, the author thought that she had already heard everything because the recollection of the Holocaust created the illusion – and what an illusion it was – that she was able to understand the survivors.However, the experience of a survivor is unattainable, since it is the reality in which he or she lives that makes listening-hearing impassable.Thus, the survivor always remains a solitary human being, living with “that” – the genocide. And in the case of Rwanda, “that” will continue without end because of the on-the-ground situation in which victims co-exist and live with perpetrators.Cairn free access
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description The Endless Solitude of the SurvivorTo retake, in these few pages, the journey of encounter with the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda – a long journey of listening and writing that still goes on – means, above all, a new opportunity to convey the voices of survivors such as Marie, Esther, Théophila... among others. It is an opportunity to tell once more their limitless solitude.The experience acquired while working on this subject has taught the author that claiming to understand a survivor because one chooses to listen to his story, is a falsehood. The fact is that one cannot predict the actual effect of words, i.e. at times one is unable to hear or unlikely to believe their meaning. In the process of interpreting these reactions as being part of a defense mechanism, I discovered in Rwanda one of the world’s cruelest pains : the solitude of the survivor – a cureless pain !This text aims at trying to show how incredible this pain is. The term incredible here means something that one has “never heard of”, or “there is nothing like it”. While conducting her first interviews with Tutsi survivors, the author thought that she had already heard everything because the recollection of the Holocaust created the illusion – and what an illusion it was – that she was able to understand the survivors.However, the experience of a survivor is unattainable, since it is the reality in which he or she lives that makes listening-hearing impassable.Thus, the survivor always remains a solitary human being, living with “that” – the genocide. And in the case of Rwanda, “that” will continue without end because of the on-the-ground situation in which victims co-exist and live with perpetrators.
author Belhaddad, Souâd
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