Book Review: From Surviving to Living: Voice,Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing

Burnet Jennie E. (2009) Whose genocide? Whose truth? Representations of victim and perpetrator in Rwanda. In Hinton AL O′Neill KL (eds) Genocide: truth, memory, and representation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 80-110.

Norridge Z (2013) Perceiving Pain in African Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dauge-Roth AE (2010) Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Scarry E (1985) The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Sanders MA (1994) Theorizing the Collaborative Self: The Dynamics of Contour and Content inthe Dictated Autobiography. New Literary History 25(2): 445–58.

Bornand M (2004) Témoignage et fiction: les récits de rescapés dans la littérature de langue française (1945–2000). Geneva: Droz.

Novak A (2008) Who Speaks? Who Listens?: The Problem of Address in Two Nigerian Trauma Novels. Studies in the Novel 40(1): 31–51.

Hron M (2009) Itsembabwoko“à la française”? –Rwanda, Fiction and the Franco-African Imaginary. Forum for Modern Language Studies 45(2): 162-175.

Weine S (2006) Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

LaCapra D (2001) Writing History, Writing Trauma. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.