TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Genocide yet again: Scenes of Rwanda and Ethical Witness in the Human Rights Memoir
JO  - Australian journal of politics and history
A1  - Gigliotti, Simone
SP  - 84
EP  - 95
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
N2  - This article investigates three recent human rights memoirs that chronicle the Rwandan genocide of 1994: Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures): True Stories from a War Zone, Shake Hands with the Devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda, and The Zanzibar Chest: a memoir of love and war. I use these memoirs to explore the complexities of bearing witness to ethnic violence and war as an autobiographical subject shaped by the memory of historical atrocity — as a besieged self in traumatic occupations of the UN protector (Roméo Dallaire), lawyer (Kenneth Cain), and war correspondent (Aidan Hartley). Finally, I suggest that the authors of these memoirs are secondary witnesses, claimants to ethical truths and writers of atrocity testimony that complicate the burgeoning life-telling compulsion of what is and who can claim to be a genocide victim.<p /> 
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SN  - 0004-9522
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2007.00444.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -