Traumatisme et mémoire culturelle [Extrait : « Témoigner du génocide contre les Tutsi du Rwanda »]

Dauge-Roth, Alexandre

Décembre 2023

20231201

Traumatisme et mémoire culturelle [Extrait : « Témoigner du génocide contre les Tutsi du Rwanda »]

France et mondes francophones

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Three years after the end of the 1994 genocide, which saw the extermination of more than 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda in three months, Yolande Mukagasana published La mort ne veut pas de moi (1997) in France. However, it was not until the tenth commemoration that a wealth of testimonies was published. Since then, many Tutsi survivors have published their stories with French and French-speaking publishers. Among the most influential are those written by Esther Mujawayo (2004; 2006), Annick Kayitesi (2004), and Élise Musomandera (2014). Their testimonies attest as much to what they experienced in 1994 as to the difficult long-term management of their trauma, as to their demands and desire for justice. The majority of these texts are written by women, with a few notable exceptions, including the testimonies of Vénuste Kayimahe (2002) and especially of Révérien Rurangwa, who titles his story with this scathing and symptomatic neologism: Génocide (2006). One of the main challenges for these authors lies in the advent of their speaking out in the era of national reconciliation and the implementation of transitional justice, which requires compromises, forms of self-censorship, and sacrifices of unprecedented psychological violence.

https://francegenocidetutsi.fr/fgtshow.php?num=35187