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Who fears death
Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
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Rwanda Genocide Stories
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.
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Murambi, the book of bones
[W]hat is true of Rwanda is true in each of us; we all share in
Africa. -- L'Harmattan [This novel] comes closer than
have many political scientists or historians to trying to understand why this small
country... sank in such appalling violence. -- Radio France
International In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were
killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees
of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face
to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Now, the
power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through
Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan
history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the
time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his
family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel
unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that it is only our humanity that will save
us, and that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the
genocide. From the novel: If only by the way people
are walking, you can see that tension is mounting by the minute. I can feel it
almost physically. Everyone is running or at least hurrying about. I meet more and
more passersby who seem to be walking around in circles. There seems to be another
light in their eyes. I think of the fathers who have to face the anguished eyes of
their children and who can't tell them anything. For them, the country has become an
immense trap in the space of just a few hours. Death is on the prowl. They can't
even dream of defending themselves. Everything has been meticulously prepared for a
long time: the administration, the army, and the [militia] are going to combine
forces to kill, if possible, every last one of them.
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In the shadow of 10,000 hills : a novel
\"In 1968, a disillusioned and heartbroken Lillian Carlson left Atlanta after the assassination of Martin Luther King. She found meaning in the hearts of orphaned African children and cobbled together her own small orphanage in the Rift Valley alongside the lush forests of Rwanda.Three decades later, in New York City, Rachel Shepherd, lost and heartbroken herself, embarks on a journey to find the father who abandoned her as a young child, determined to solve the enigma of Henry Shepherd, a now-famous photographer. When an online search turns up a clue to his whereabouts, Rachel travels to Rwanda to connect with an unsuspecting and uncooperative Lillian. While Rachel tries to unravel the mystery of her father's disappearance, she finds unexpected allies in an ex-pat doctor running from his past and a young Tutsi woman who lived through a profound experience alongside her father. Set amongst the gaping wounds of a healing country, follow the intertwining stories of three women who discover something unexpected: grace when there can be no forgiveness.\" -- Amazon.com
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Palimpsestic Memory
The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of 'palimpsestic memory', which the author defines as the condensation of different spatio-temporal traces, to describe these interconnections and defines the poetics and the politics of this composite form. In doing so it is argued that a poetics dependent on tropes and techniques, such as metaphor, allegory and montage, establishes connections across space and time which oblige us to perceive cultural memory not in terms of its singular attachment to a particular event or bound to specific ethno-cultural or national communities but as a dynamic process of transfer between different moments of racialized violence and between different cultural communities. The structure of the book allows for both the theoretical elaboration of this paradigm for cultural memory and individual case-studies of novels and films.
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The milk of birds
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents.
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Howard Jacobson's J: A Novel and the Counterfactual Imagination
Abstract This article analyses Howard Jacobson's 2014 novel J, which depicts the aftermath of an imagined genocide of the Jews in Britain, and explores its connections to other examples of British-set counterfactual Holocaust fiction. The representation of mass murder on British soil in Jacobson's novel is achieved despite its omission of such crucial words as ‘Jew’, making the task of identifying these events and their victims into one shared by the novel's protagonists and the reader. This article identifies the varied targets of J's satire, which include that of increasing British insularity and its basis in assumptions of moral superiority in relation to the commission of wartime atrocities in Europe. Yet the novel also critiques in more general terms those aspects of contemporary life's dependence on conformity-inducing technologies, to suggest that the figure of the Jew, and responses to the Jewish presence, offer a more vital alternative.
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Never fall down : a novel
\"Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Writing from my heart
The occasion for this essay was an invited keynote for a writers' festival. The theme, based on the signature \"heart reef,\" the remarkable coral formation that features on many tourist brochures promoting the WhitSunday Region, was Writing from the Heart. The heart has long been a potent symbol in literature of undying love (\"the heart is a red, red rose\"). It is also invoked in writing guidebooks, such as Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing which encourages writers to write from the heart. To be honest, I'm not sure this metaphor is apt for Australian literature, where the heart May perhaps be more often associated with heartbreak or inner turmoil. This May explain my own lack of inspiration in response to the task of writing to this theme.
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