Catherine Gilbert. “From Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing”
Catherine Gilbert writes about the ways and means of survivorship of Tutsi women during the 1994 genocide. She does so through an analysis of the memoirs and testimonies of a sample of 14 women who wrote first-person accounts of surviving the genocide, some in collaboration with Western authors. Th...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2022
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Catherine Gilbert writes about the ways and means of survivorship of Tutsi women during the 1994 genocide. She does so through an analysis of the memoirs and testimonies of a sample of 14 women who wrote first-person accounts of surviving the genocide, some in collaboration with Western authors. The stories are nonetheless told by Rwandans, addressing recognizable themes in the study of who did what to whom, and why, during the 1994 genocide. Readers learn of remarkable tales of survival, of... |
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