The Marginalised in Genocide Narratives

Giorgia Donà is Co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Chapter 1 Introduction: narrating genocide and the genocide narrative

Introduction

Narrating genocides: victims, perpetrators and the marginalised others

The formation of the genocide master–narrative

The constellation of genocide narratives

The Rwandan genocide and Rwanda Studies

Situating narratives methodologically

Conclusion

Chapter 2 The formation of the foundational genocide master-narrative

Introduction

The formation of the master-narrative of the Genocide against the Tutsi

The genocide as the foundational master-narrative

The counter master-narrative of war

The marginalised voices

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Reframing culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group

Introduction

Naming culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group

Revisiting moral culpability through ordinary morality

The narrative of national unity and reconciliation: everyday relations and values

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Revisiting the figure of the heroic rescuer: communal rescue, care and resistance

Introduction

Naming the public figure of the rescuer: individual, exceptional, heroic

From exceptional heroes to communities of care

The communal rescue narrative: care and resistance

The ambivalent legacy of rescuing

Revisiting the figure of the heroic saviour

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Families of mixed ethnic backgrounds: the intimate burden of those caught in-between the politics of ethnic identity

Introduction

The erasure of the 'mixed' constituent in public narratives

Rethinking the proxy categories of rescapé, génocidaire and orphelin du génocide

Caught in-between: narrating the intimate burden of 'mixed' belonging

The narrative legacy of the genocide

Articulating and reclaiming the 'mixed'

Conclusion

Chapter 6 Marginalisation and survival of the other minority group

Introduction

Naming the outside onlooker: the Twa

Questioning the onlooker narrative: the insider and the struggle for survival

Post-genocide narratives: from autochthones to historically marginalised

Decentering the genocide narrative: national progress, vulnerability and material survival

Conclusion

Chapter 7 Civilian returnees: intra-ethnic differences and continuities with the past and exile

Introduction

The Hamitic narrative: histories of mobility and belonging

The hegemony of the RPF-led national narrative and the diverse stories of the civilian returnees

Revisiting the narrative of the 'new' Rwanda: continuities with the past and exile

Conclusion

Chapter 8 The revised constellation of genocide narratives and the untold social history of genocides

Introduction

The marginalised voices in the revised constellation of genocide narratives

Narrative engagement: agency and dialogical strategies

Rewriting the social history of the genocide that took place in Rwanda

Expanding and applying the constellation of genocide narratives

Conclusion

Glossary

References