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Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rangira Béa Gallimore (Editor), Gerise Herndon (Editor), Patricia Anne Simpson (Foreword by)Publish date:2019-08-01Pages:282
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206640ISBN-10:1496206649UPC:9781496206640Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Black Studies (Global), Women's Studies, AfricaBook Topic:EastSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCYV2CJJAC
What is the role of aesthetic expression in responding to discrimination, tragedy, violence, even genocide? How does gender shape responses to both literal and structural violence, including implicit linguistic, familial, and cultural violence? How might writing or other works of art contribute to healing? Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda.

This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965-2015). At the commemoration of the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, organized by the Rwandan Embassy in Washington DC, Kalisa gave a presentation, "Who Speaks for the Survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi?" Kalisa devoted her energy to giving expression to those whose voices had been distorted or silenced. The essays in this anthology address how the production and experience of visual, dramatic, cinematic, and musical arts, in addition to literary arts, contribute to healing from the trauma of mass violence, offering preliminary responses to questions like Kalisa's and honoring her by continuing the dialogue in which she participated with such passion, sharing the work of scholars and colleagues in genocide studies, gender studies, and francophone literatures.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496206640ISBN-10:1496206649UPC:9781496206640Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Black Studies (Global), Women's Studies, AfricaBook Topic:EastSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCYV2CJJAC
Rangira B?a Gallimore is an associate professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri. She is the coeditor of a book in French on the Rwandan genocide. Gerise Herndon is a professor of English and chair of gender studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She is coeditor, with Sarah Barbour, of Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Cond? A Writer of Her Own.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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