Memory for the Masses? Authorship, Editorship and Publication Strategies of Rwandan Genocide Survivor Testimonies

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• 批准号: 2265972
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2265972
• 关键词: Memory; Masses; Authorship; Editorship; Publication

This research will undertake a sustained analysis of survivor testimonies arising from the Rwandan genocide of 1994, during which approximately 1,000,000 Tutsis lost their lives at the hands of Hutus in the space of 100 days. The years following 1994 witnessed an emergence of Rwandan survivor testimonies alongside fictional works based on survivor accounts of the genocide. However, the situation surrounding the compiling and dissemination of survivor testimonies is a complex one, necessitating a balancing act between the competing demands of corporate pressure and domestic legal constraints. With no domestic publishing infrastructure, French-speaking Rwandan genocide survivors rely overwhelmingly on Francophone publishing houses for their voices to reach the outside world. As such, European authors have either compiled or co-edited the majority of them. Further compounding the communication of survivors' accounts, the Rwandan government imposes systematic censorship to prevent any contradiction of their apodictic success story of reconciliation. In light of this situation pertaining to the dissemination of testimonies, the principal focus of my research will be to examine the field of testimony publishing alongside the competing demands made on the literary field that shape and influence published testimonies.

这项研究将持续分析1994年卢旺达种族灭绝的幸存者证词，在这100天内，大约有100万图西族人死于胡图族人之手。1994年之后的几年里，卢旺达幸存者的证词和基于大屠杀幸存者叙述的虚构作品出现了。但是，编纂和传播幸存者证词的情况很复杂，需要在公司压力和国内法律限制的相互竞争的要求之间取得平衡。由于没有国内出版基础设施，讲法语的卢旺达种族灭绝幸存者绝大多数依赖法语出版社将他们的声音传达给外部世界。正因为如此，欧洲的作者汇编或合编了其中的大多数。卢旺达政府实行系统的审查制度，以防止与他们绝对成功的和解故事有任何矛盾，这进一步加剧了幸存者叙述的交流。鉴于这种与证词传播有关的情况，我研究的主要重点将是研究证词出版领域，以及对文学领域提出的塑造和影响已发表证词的竞争要求。