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

这项研究将持续分析1994年卢旺达种族灭绝事件的幸存者证词，在此期间，大约100万图西人在100天的时间里被胡图人夺走了生命。1994年之后的几年里，出现了卢旺达幸存者的证词，以及基于幸存者对种族灭绝的描述的虚构作品。然而，围绕幸存者证词汇编和传播的情况是复杂的，需要在公司压力和国内法律约束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压倒性地依赖法语出版社发出的声音传到外部世界。因此，欧洲作者要么汇编了其中的大部分，要么共同编辑了其中的大部分。此外，卢旺达政府还对幸存者的陈述进行了系统的审查，以防止与他们成功的和解故事相抵触。鉴于这种与证言传播有关的情况，我的研究的主要焦点将是审查证言出版领域，以及在塑造和影响已发表证言的文学领域提出的相互竞争的要求。

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.