"The eyes of truth are bright, the head of Truth is up right, Truth has no fear of doubt, the words of Truth are touching and deep..." You true book lovers are the whole reason Dr Olivier Nyirubugara has written and published the book.
Dr. Olivier Nyirubugara is lecturer of New Media and Online Journalism at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (Erasmus University Rot-terdam). He has published mainly on digital media, history education, cultural heritage, and cultural memory.
Can a
society, a culture, a country, be trapped by its own memories? The question is
not easy to answer, but it would not be a bad idea to cautiously say: ‘It
depends’. This book is about one society – Rwanda – and its culture,
traditions, identities, and memories. More specifically, it discusses some of
the ways in which ethnic identities and related memories constitute a deadly
trap that needs to be torn apart if mass violence is to be eradicated in that
country. It looks into everyday cultural practices such as child naming and
oral traditions (myths and tales, proverbs, war poetry etc.) and into political
practices that govern the ways in which citizens conceptualize the
past.
Rwanda
was engulfed in a bloody war from 1990 until 1994, the last episode of which
was a genocide that claimed about a million lives among the Tutsi
minority. This book – the first in the Memory Traps series – provides a new understanding
of how a seemingly quiet society can suddenly turn into a scene of the most
horrible inter-ethnic crimes. It offers an analysis of the complexities and
dangers resulting from the ways in which memories are managed both at personal
and collective levels.
The
main point is that Rwandans have become hostages of their memories of the
long-gone and the recent past. The book shows how these memories follow ethnic
lines and lead to a state of cultural hypocrisy on the one hand, and to
permanent conflict – either open and brutal, or latent and beneath the surface
– on the other hand. Written from a memory studies perspective and informed by
critical theory, philosophy, literature, [oral] history, and psychology, among
others, this book deals with
Dr. Olivier Nyirubugara is lecturer of
New Media and Online Journalism at the
Erasmus School of History, Culture and
Communication (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Communication (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
He has published mainly on digital
media, history education, cultural heritage,
and cultural memory.
Olivier Nyirubugara:
Complexities and Dangers of
Remembering and Forgetting in Rwanda.
Memory Traps Volume I
ISBN: 978-90-8890-110-2
Language: English
Price: € 29,95 (Incl. VAT, excl. Shipping)
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Olivier Nyirubugara:
Complexities and
Dangers of
Remembering and
Forgetting in Rwanda.
Memory Traps Volume I
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· Language: English
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