Peaceful selves : personhood, nationhood, and the post-conflict moment in Rwanda /
Eramian, Laura,
Peaceful selves : personhood, nationhood, and the post-conflict moment in Rwanda / Laura Eramian. - New York : Berghahn Books, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Person, nation, and violence in Rwanda -- The post-conflict moment in Butare and its antecedents -- Ethnicity's specter in post-ethnic times -- Living with absence -- Creativity, positive thinking, and their perils -- Making peace by remaking persons -- Conclusion: The post-conflict, the postcolonial, and peaceful selves.
"This in-depth ethnographic study of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda, carried out over a decade, investigates how Rwandans grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of the violence. While Rwandans strive to be agents of change in a new era of modern 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. The author explores the effect of this situation on ordinary lives, caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper."--Back cover
9781785337123
2017048429
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Collective memory--Rwanda.
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Reconciliation.
Rwandans.
Electronic Books.
DT450 / .P433 2018
Peaceful selves : personhood, nationhood, and the post-conflict moment in Rwanda / Laura Eramian. - New York : Berghahn Books, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : color illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Person, nation, and violence in Rwanda -- The post-conflict moment in Butare and its antecedents -- Ethnicity's specter in post-ethnic times -- Living with absence -- Creativity, positive thinking, and their perils -- Making peace by remaking persons -- Conclusion: The post-conflict, the postcolonial, and peaceful selves.
"This in-depth ethnographic study of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda, carried out over a decade, investigates how Rwandans grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of the violence. While Rwandans strive to be agents of change in a new era of modern 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. The author explores the effect of this situation on ordinary lives, caught in global post-conflict imperatives to remember and to forget, to mourn and to prosper."--Back cover
9781785337123
2017048429
Self--Social aspects--Rwanda--Butare.
Collective memory--Rwanda.
National characteristics, Rwandan.
Reconciliation.
Rwandans.
Electronic Books.
DT450 / .P433 2018