{"product_id":"art-from-trauma-genocide-and-healing-beyond-rwanda-9781496206640","title":"Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda","description":"What 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRangira B?a Gallimore\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri. She is the coeditor of a book in French on the Rwandan genocide. \u003cb\u003eGerise Herndon \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English and chair of gender studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She is coeditor, with Sarah Barbour, of \u003ci\u003eEmerging Perspectives on Maryse Cond? A Writer of Her Own\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50853336613138,"sku":"9781496206640","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fdff5041-ade0-4bd7-9909-fd76f6aec870.jpg?v=1737448241","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/art-from-trauma-genocide-and-healing-beyond-rwanda-9781496206640","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}