A dance begins beneath the out-stretched branches of the giant
umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping,
then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The
dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearings on
the one hundred days of bloodshed known as the Rwandan Genocide, is
called into session. This is what the ongoing process of
reconciliation looks like nearly twenty years after the brutal,
orchestrated murder of almost one million people in Rwanda. But
this scene demands questions: How can court testimony be used to
rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And
how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of
justice and reconciliation? By documenting the discourse and
actions of the gacaca court and exploring the use of performance,
Ananda Breed's "Performing the Nation" provides a satisfying
analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative,
and memorialization. A crucial addition to the literature of
genocide studies, this far-reaching text will also resonate with
scholars of applied theater, African studies, and law.
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