{"id":273,"date":"2016-10-20T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-10-20T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T08:15:38","slug":"asymptote-journal-reviews-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/asymptote-journal-reviews-cockroaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptote Journal reviews Cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read a review by Ren\u00e9 Bradshaw of my book &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/book\/cockroaches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cockroaches<\/a>&#8216; on Asymptote Journal.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/criticism\/scholastique-mukasonga-cockroaches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole review<\/a> on Asymptote Journal<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with most memorials and public remembrances marking strategic mass killings\u2014war and genocide being the two major examples from the twentieth century\u2014is that they cannot, and do not, individualize death. In the case of genocide, failing to return names or individual histories to victims can recur to genocide\u2019s inherent ambition to depersonalize, collectivize, and forget. As the trauma researcher Sara Gruyer compellingly suggests, the genocide memorials in Rwanda, including Nyamata, that preserve and expose the bones of the dead reflect a complicated, unbalanced distinction between commemorating the organized extermination of a population and commemorating \u201cdeath in general.\u201d In this circular logic, the memorials inadvertently reveal anew the necessity of an impossible testimony\u2014the testimony of the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read a review by Ren\u00e9 Bradshaw of my book &#8216;Cockroaches&#8216; on Asymptote Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,49,34,17,10],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Asymptote Journal reviews Cockroaches - 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