Whoever writes is exiled from writing, which is the country—his own—where he is not a prophet. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster When the Rwandan genocide began in 1994, the “era of testimony” (as dubbed by scholar Shoshana Felman) was already well underway. Following the Nazi genocide in Europe, there was initially relative … Continue reading Rwandan Genocide, The Task of Translation, and Western Markets for Testimony: Part I—by Kim Rostan
Rwandan Genocide, The Task of Translation, and Western Markets for Testimony: Part I—by Kim Rostan
