Marginalised in Genocide Narratives

Giorgia Donà is Co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK.

• LIST OF FIGURESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF ABBREVIATIONSChapter 1 Introduction: narrating genocide and the genocide narrative IntroductionNarrating genocides: victims, perpetrators and the marginalised othersThe formation of the genocide master–narrativeThe constellation of genocide narrativesThe Rwandan genocide and Rwanda StudiesSituating narratives methodologicallyConclusionChapter 2 The formation of the foundational genocide master-narrativeIntroductionThe formation of the master-narrative of the Genocide against the TutsiThe genocide as the foundational master-narrativeThe counter master-narrative of warThe marginalised voicesConclusionChapter 3 Reframing culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator groupIntroductionNaming culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator groupRevisiting moral culpability through ordinary moralityThe narrative of national unity and reconciliation: everyday relations and valuesConclusionChapter 4 Revisiting the figure of the heroic rescuer: communal rescue, care and resistanceIntroductionNaming the public figure of the rescuer: individual, exceptional, heroicFrom exceptional heroes to communities of careThe communal rescue narrative: care and resistanceThe ambivalent legacy of rescuingRevisiting the figure of the heroic saviourConclusionChapter 5 Families of mixed ethnic backgrounds: the intimate burden of those caught in-between the politics of ethnic identityIntroductionThe erasure of the 'mixed' constituent in public narrativesRethinking the proxy categories of rescapé, génocidaire and orphelin du génocideCaught in-between: narrating the intimate burden of 'mixed' belongingThe narrative legacy of the genocideArticulating and reclaiming the 'mixed'ConclusionChapter 6 Marginalisation and survival of the other minority groupIntroductionNaming the outside onlooker: the TwaQuestioning the onlooker narrative: the insider and the struggle for survivalPost-genocide narratives: from autochthones to historically marginalisedDecentering the genocide narrative: national progress, vulnerability and material survivalConclusionChapter 7 Civilian returnees: intra-ethnic differences and continuities with the past and exileIntroductionThe Hamitic narrative: histories of mobility and belongingThe hegemony of the RPF-led national narrative and the diverse stories of the civilian returneesRevisiting the narrative of the 'new' Rwanda: continuities with the past and exileConclusionChapter 8 The revised constellation of genocide narratives and the untold social history of genocidesIntroductionThe marginalised voices in the revised constellation of genocide narrativesNarrative engagement: agency and dialogical strategiesRewriting the social history of the genocide that took place in RwandaExpanding and applying the constellation of genocide narrativesConclusionGlossaryReferences