Harvest of skulls / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic Thomas.
Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965- author.; Thomas, Dominic Richard David, translator.
2016
DT450.435 .W3313 2016eb
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Title Harvest of skulls / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; translated by Dominic Thomas.
Author Waberi, Abdourahman A., 1965- author.
Uniform Title Moisson de crânes. English
ISBN 9780253024411 (electronic book)
0253024412 (electronic book)
0253024323
9780253024329
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Language English
Language Note Translated from the French.
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 54 pages).
Call Number DT450.435 .W3313 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 967.57104/31
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Added Author Thomas, Dominic Richard David, translator.
Series Global African voices.
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Preface: Postgenocide Rwanda
Terminus
The cavalcade
And the dogs feasted
No, Kigali is not sad
Return to Kigali
Bujumbura Beach
Afterword
Note on translations.

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