Peaceful selves : personhood, nationhood, and the post-conflict moment in Rwanda / Laura Eramian.

By:

Eramian, Laura [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781785337123

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DT450 .P433 2018

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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

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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

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