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Seeing the Genocide against the Tutsi through someone else’s eyes: Prosthetic memory and Hotel Rwanda
Memory Studies ( IF 1.053 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 , DOI: 10.1177/1750698020959811
Nicki Hitchcott 1
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Alison Landsberg’s theory of ‘prosthetic memory’ suggests that memories are not ‘owned’, that is they do not depend on lived experience, but rather they can occur as a result of an individual’s engagement with a mediated representation (e.g. a film, a museum, a TV series, a novel). One of the best-known mass cultural responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda is Terry George’s 2004 feature film, Hotel Rwanda. While the film was a huge commercial success, Rwandan survivor testimonies paint a very different picture of what happened in the real ‘Hotel Rwanda’ (the Hôtel des Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali). This article discusses the different versions of the ‘Hotel Rwanda’ story through the lens of prosthetic memory and considers the usefulness of Landsberg’s theory for analysing memory narratives from or about Rwanda. While Landsberg promotes prosthetic memories as ‘in the best cases’ capable of generating empathy and political alliances, I show that, when mass-mediated representations create revisionist false ‘memories’, this can have harmful consequences for survivors of trauma. After focusing on the ethical implications of what Landsberg describes as ‘seeing through someone else’s eyes’, I conclude that prosthetic memory is a concept that should be treated with caution.



中文翻译:

通过他人的眼光看待针对图西族的种族灭绝:假肢记忆和卢旺达饭店

艾莉森·兰德斯伯格(Alison Landsberg)的“假肢记忆”理论表明,记忆不是“拥有的”,也就是说,它们并不依赖于生活经验,而是由于个人参与媒介代理(例如电影,博物馆)而产生的,电视连续剧,小说)。特里·乔治(Terry George)2004年的故事片《卢旺达饭店》是1994年卢旺达对图西族种族灭绝大屠杀的最著名的大众文化回应之一。虽然这部电影取得了巨大的商业成功,但卢旺达幸存者的证词却描绘了真实的“卢旺达酒店”(卢旺达首都基加利的米勒科林酒店)发生的一切情况。本文通过假肢记忆的角度讨论了“卢旺达饭店”故事的不同版本,并考虑了兰德斯伯格理论对分析卢旺达或有关卢旺达的记忆叙事的有用性。虽然兰德斯伯格(Landsberg)将假肢记忆称为“在最佳情况下”能够产生同理心和政治同盟的记忆,但我证明,当大众介导的陈述创造出修正主义的虚假“记忆”时,这可能给创伤幸存者带来有害后果。在关注Landsberg所说的“通过别人的眼睛看”的伦理含义之后,

更新日期:2020-09-29
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