Genocide Lives in Us Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda

Name: Genocide Lives in Us Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda
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ISBN: 9780299286446

ISBN-10: 0299286444

ISBN-13: 9780299286446

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jennie E. Burnet

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In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women faced the impossible—resurrecting their lives amidst unthinkable devastation. Haunted by memories of lost loved ones and of their own experiences of violence, women rebuilt their lives from “less than nothing.” Neither passive victims nor innate peacemakers, they traversed dangerous emotional and political terrain to emerge as leaders in Rwanda today. This clear and engaging ethnography of survival tackles three interrelated phenomena—memory, silence, and justice—and probes the contradictory roles women played in postgenocide reconciliation. Based on over a decade of intensive fieldwork,Genocide Lives in Usprovides a unique grassroots…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Note on Kinyarwanda Usage and Spelling


Introduction



Social Classification, State Power, and Violence



Remembering Genocide: Lived Memory and National Mourning



Amplified Silence: Hegemony, Memory, and Silence's Multiple Meanings



Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in the Aftermath of Genocide



Defining Coexistence and Reconciliation in the New Rwanda



Paths to Reconciliation



Reconciliation, Justice, and Amplified Silence


Conclusion


Glossary


Notes


Works Cited


Index