TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waberi,Abdourahman A.
AU  - Thomas,Dominic Richard David
TI  - Harvest of skulls
T2  - Global African voices
SN  - 9780253024411
AV  - DT450.435 .W3313 2016
U1  - 967.57104/31 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Genocide
KW  - Rwanda
KW  - Tutsi (African people)
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Hutu (African people)
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Africa
KW  - Central
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Preface: Postgenocide Rwanda -- Terminus -- The cavalcade -- And the dogs feasted -- No, Kigali is not sad -- Return to Kigali -- Bujumbura Beach -- Afterword -- Note on translations
N2  - "In 1994, the Akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the country. Given the failure of the international community to acknowledge the genocide, in 1998, ten African authors visited Rwanda in a writing initiative that was an attempt to make partial amends. Abdourahman A. Waberi claims, "Language remains inadequate in accounting for the world and all its turpitudes, words can never be more than unstable crutches, staggering along ... And yet, if we want to hold on to a glimmer of hope in the world, the only miraculous weapons we have at our disposal are these same clumsy supports." Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for discussions on testimony and witnessing, the complex relationship between victims and perpetrators, the power of the moral imagination, and how survivors can rebuild a society haunted by the ghost of its history."--
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