LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chapter 1 Introduction: narrating genocide and the genocide narrative
Introduction
Narrating genocides: victims, perpetrators and the marginalised others
The formation of the genocide master–narrative
The constellation of genocide narratives
The Rwandan genocide and Rwanda Studies
Situating narratives methodologically
Conclusion
Chapter 2 The formation of the foundational genocide master-narrative
Introduction
The formation of the master-narrative of the Genocide against the Tutsi
The genocide as the foundational master-narrative
The counter master-narrative of war
The marginalised voices
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Reframing culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group
Introduction
Naming culpability, shame and guilt: non-perpetrator members of the perpetrator group
Revisiting moral culpability through ordinary morality
The narrative of national unity and reconciliation: everyday relations and values
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Revisiting the figure of the heroic rescuer: communal rescue, care and resistance
Introduction
Naming the public figure of the rescuer: individual, exceptional, heroic
From exceptional heroes to communities of care
The communal rescue narrative: care and resistance
The ambivalent legacy of rescuing
Revisiting the figure of the heroic saviour
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Families of mixed ethnic backgrounds: the intimate burden of those caught in-between the politics of ethnic identity
Introduction
The erasure of the 'mixed' constituent in public narratives
Rethinking the proxy categories of rescapé, génocidaire and orphelin du génocide
Caught in-between: narrating the intimate burden of 'mixed' belonging
The narrative legacy of the genocide
Articulating and reclaiming the 'mixed'
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Marginalisation and survival of the other minority group
Introduction
Naming the outside onlooker: the Twa
Questioning the onlooker narrative: the insider and the struggle for survival
Post-genocide narratives: from autochthones to historically marginalised
Decentering the genocide narrative: national progress, vulnerability and material survival
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Civilian returnees: intra-ethnic differences and continuities with the past and exile
Introduction
The Hamitic narrative: histories of mobility and belonging
The hegemony of the RPF-led national narrative and the diverse stories of the civilian returnees
Revisiting the narrative of the 'new' Rwanda: continuities with the past and exile
Conclusion
Chapter 8 The revised constellation of genocide narratives and the untold social history of genocides
Introduction
The marginalised voices in the revised constellation of genocide narratives
Narrative engagement: agency and dialogical strategies
Rewriting the social history of the genocide that took place in Rwanda
Expanding and applying the constellation of genocide narratives
Biography
Giorgia Donà is Co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK.
