List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Patricia A. Simpson
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Rangira Béa Gallimore and Gerise Herndon
Part I. In Memoriam: Lessons Learned from Chantal Kalisa
1. Baby Steps
Margaret Jacobs
2. Speaking Nearby Genocide
Gerise Herndon
3. Chantal’s Voice: A Guiding Light
Natalia Ledford
4. Bittersweet Realities: Field Research, Human Rights, and Questioning Intentions
Laura Roost and Ryan Lowry, with Patrice McMahon
5. Memory, Language, and Healing
Isabel Velázquez
Part II. Performing Arts and Healing from the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
6. Theater and the Rwandan Genocide
Chantal Kalisa
7. Ingoma Nshya: Forbidden Fruit Brings Healing and Empowerment to Rwandan Female Drummers
Rangira Béa Gallimore
Part III. Visualizing Violence, Silence, and Trauma
8. The Films of Kivu Ruhorahoza: Staging a New Sense of Direction?
Odile Cazenave and Patricia-Pia Célérier
9. Héla Ammar: Art and Beyond
Anna Rocca
10. Filming with Orphans of the Genocide: A Transformative Dialogue through a Double-Lens Approach
Alexandre Dauge-Roth
11. Art for Teaching and Art for Surviving: From the Holocaust to Healing
Eileen M. Angelini and Heather E. Connell
Part IV. Narrating Atrocities and Dealing with Trauma
12. Gender-Based Violence in Monique Ilboudo’s Fiction
Nicki Hitchcott
13. Narrating Itsembabwoko and the Quest for Empathy
Josias Semujanga
14. “Lay Down Body, Lay Down”: Mitigating Transgenerational Trauma through Spirituality in Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Magic City
Kalenda Eaton
Part V. Scripting Self and Healing in Women’s Narratives
15. Womenʼs Friendship in Exile: Healing in the Epistolary Correspondence between Zenobia Camprubí and Pilar de Zubiaurre
Iker González-Allende
16. Preserving Memories, Celebrating Lives: War, Motherhood, and Grief in Scholastique Mukasonga’s La femme aux pieds nus
Marzia Caporale
List of Contributors
Index