Seminar: Novels of genocide: Remembering & forgetting the ethnic other in post-1994 novels in Rwanda

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been the central subject of many works of fiction including films, plays, and novels, to mention a few. This seminar focuses on novels and is built on the assumption that writing a novel about events as tragic as the genocide and the war implies that the novelists have to constantly make selections amongst events from the past and fill the blanks using their imagination. In so doing, they consciously or unconsciously engage in promoting one perspective on the past rather than the other. Speaker: Olivier Nyirubugara, The Hague University of Applied Science. Please register

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