Peaceful Selves : : Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda / / Laura Eramian.
This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 199...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Person, Nation, and Violence in Rwanda -- 1. The Post-Conflict Moment in Butare and Its Antecedents -- 2. Ethnicity’s Specter in Post-Ethnic Times -- 3. Living with Absence -- 4. Creativity, Positive Thinking, and Their Perils -- 5. Making Peace by Remaking Persons -- Conclusion: The Post-Conflict, the Postcolonial, and Peaceful Selves -- Glossary of Kinyarwanda terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around “good” personhood, and from both state and popular visions for the future. What emerges is a profound dissonance in town residents’ selfhood. While they strive to be agents of change who can catalyze a new era of modern Rwandan nationhood, they are also devastated by the genocide and struggle to recover a sense of selfhood and belonging in the absence of kin, friends, and neighbors. In drawing out the contradictions at the heart of self-making and social life in contemporary Rwanda, this book asserts a novel argument about the ordinary lives caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781785337123 9783110998214 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781785337123?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Laura Eramian. |