{"product_id":"art-from-trauma-genocide-and-healing-beyond-rwanda-hardback-9781496206640","title":"Art from Trauma; Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda (Hardback) 9781496206640","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt from Trauma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGenocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRangira Béa Gallimore (Edited by), Gerise Herndon (Edited by), Patricia Anne Simpson (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496206640\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 August 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 1 photograph, 3 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eArt from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda\u003c\/i\u003e in very creative ways examines and explores the subject of trauma, an experience that could subsume one into oblivion, denial, and death, but which, thankfully, due to the arts including literature, can help to pull the survivors out of this dark place.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I recommend that everyone read this fascinating book. In remembering professor Chantal Kalisa, the contributors of \u003ci\u003eArt from Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e bring hope for the future to victims coping with traumatic experiences of extreme violence or genocide. Providing victims a platform for sharing memories and experiences is one way of mourning and may lead to healing.”-Edouard Kayihura, author of \u003ci\u003eInside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story and Why It Matters Today \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This astute biographical, methodological, and theoretical book presents Chantal Kalisa as a figure both of history and of memory-of history in relating her life to her career in order to highlight compelling narratives on scholarship, activism, and responsibility; and of memory in extending her powerful interpretive works into other forays. . . . The hatred and violence that Kalisa observed in francophone Africa is replaced in this significant book with hope, along with the enduring capacity to reimagine a better future.”-Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArt from Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive narrative about violence and trauma as well as a courageous and insightful inquiry into various forms of traumatic events and the healing power of different forms of art. Featuring scholars from various and multidisciplinary perspectives, it is also a work of memory and mourning that challenges the unspeakable through the power of language and art in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.”-Aimable Twagilimana, professor of English and Fulbright Scholar, SUNY Buffalo State\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A deeply rich and inspiring volume, this book offers a worthy tribute to Chantal Kalisa’s important work and responds to the pressing need for creativity in the processes of remembrance, justice, and reconciliation in Rwanda and beyond.”-Catherine Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma, and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat is the role of aesthetic expression in responding to discrimination, tragedy, violence, even genocide? How does gender shape responses to both literal and structural violence, including implicit linguistic, familial, and cultural violence? How might writing or other works of art contribute to healing? \u003ci\u003eArt from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda\u003c\/i\u003e explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965–2015). At the commemoration of the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, organized by the Rwandan Embassy in Washington DC, Kalisa gave a presentation, “Who Speaks for the Survivors of the Genocide against Tutsi?” Kalisa devoted her energy to giving expression to those whose voices had been distorted or silenced. The essays in this anthology address how the production and experience of visual, dramatic, cinematic, and musical arts, in addition to literary arts, contribute to healing from the trauma of mass violence, offering preliminary responses to questions like Kalisa’s and honoring her by continuing the dialogue in which she participated with such passion, sharing the work of scholars and colleagues in genocide studies, gender studies, and francophone literatures.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Foreword, by Patricia A. Simpson    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction, by Rangira BÉ\u003cbr\u003ea Gallimore and Gerise Herndon    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. In Memoriam: Lessons Learned from Chantal Kalisa\u003cbr\u003e 1. Baby Steps    \u003cbr\u003e Margaret Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e 2. Speaking Nearby Genocide    \u003cbr\u003e Gerise Herndon\u003cbr\u003e 3. Chantal’\u003cbr\u003es Voice: A Guiding Light    \u003cbr\u003e Natalia Ledford\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bittersweet Realities: Field Research, Human Rights, and Questioning Intentions    \u003cbr\u003e Laura Roost and Ryan Lowry, with Patrice McMahon\u003cbr\u003e 5. Memory, Language, and Healing    \u003cbr\u003e Isabel VelÁ\u003cbr\u003ezquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Performing Arts and Healing from the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda\u003cbr\u003e 6. Theater and the Rwandan Genocide    \u003cbr\u003e Chantal Kalisa\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ingoma Nshya: Forbidden Fruit Brings Healing and Empowerment to Rwandan Female Drummers    \u003cbr\u003e Rangira BÉ\u003cbr\u003ea Gallimore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Visualizing Violence, Silence, and Trauma\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Films of Kivu Ruhorahoza: Staging a New Sense of Direction?    \u003cbr\u003e Odile Cazenave and Patricia-Pia CÉ\u003cbr\u003elÉ\u003cbr\u003erier\u003cbr\u003e 9. HÉ\u003cbr\u003ela Ammar: Art and Beyond    \u003cbr\u003e Anna Rocca\u003cbr\u003e 10. Filming with Orphans of the Genocide: A Transformative Dialogue through a Double-Lens Approach    \u003cbr\u003e Alexandre Dauge-Roth\u003cbr\u003e 11. Art for Teaching and Art for Surviving: From the Holocaust to Healing    \u003cbr\u003e Eileen M. Angelini and Heather E. Connell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Narrating Atrocities and Dealing with Trauma\u003cbr\u003e 12. Gender-Based Violence in Monique Ilboudo’\u003cbr\u003es Fiction        \u003cbr\u003e Nicki Hitchcott\u003cbr\u003e 13. Narrating Itsembabwoko and the Quest for Empathy    \u003cbr\u003e Josias Semujanga\u003cbr\u003e 14. “\u003cbr\u003eLay Down Body, Lay Down”\u003cbr\u003e: Mitigating Transgenerational Trauma through Spirituality in Jewell Parker Rhodes’\u003cbr\u003es Magic City    \u003cbr\u003e Kalenda Eaton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Scripting Self and Healing in Women’\u003cbr\u003es Narratives\u003cbr\u003e 15. Womenʼs Friendship in Exile: Healing in the Epistolary Correspondence between Zenobia CamprubÍ\u003cbr\u003e and Pilar de Zubiaurre    \u003cbr\u003e Iker GonzÁ\u003cbr\u003elez-Allende\u003cbr\u003e 16. 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