Abstract:
After 25 years of Ruanda’s Genocide, event in which more than 800 thousand people were killed, it’s not easy to forget, then, somethings need to be thought to go straight. Between reconciliation and memory, Scholastique Mukasonga writes an open masterpiece, the book could be read in different ways, we can take different looks to the tragedy. In this paper, we analyse A mulher de pés descalços (2017) in a way to discuss the narrative, gender violence and the “escrevivência” (EVARISTO, 2005EVARISTO, C. Gênero e etnia: uma escre (vivência) de dupla face. Mulheres no mundo: etnia, marginalidade e diáspora. João Pessoa: Ideia, 2005.) like a political strategy to offer voice to black woman. A mulher de pés descalços links history and memory, links the individual suffering and the familiar suffering reaching the collective suffering, main the tutsis suffering in virtue of the exhile since 1963 until the genocide in 1994. We understand that genocide is a crime against humanity not only in virtue of this proportion, but because defaced and dehumanized the feminine elements, considering the women and the maternity.
Keywords:
A mulher de pés descalços; Scholastique Mukasonga; Literature; History