GENOCIDE ET TRAUMATISME DANS L’UNIVERS ROMANSEQUE DE VERONIQUE TADJO
GENOCIDE ET TRAUMATISME DANS L’UNIVERS ROMANSEQUE DE VERONIQUE TADJO
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2020-10
Authors
ODUDIGBO, Mercy Eghonghon
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Many countries in Africa have experienced civil wars especially due to political turmoil.
This has left so many dead and some helpless and hopeless. The Rwandan genocide is
one of such civil crisis that has left a negative land mark on the lives of Rwandans.
During the genocide, more than 800,000 Tutsis where killed in 100 days making it one
of the worst of its kind in the continent of Africa. What then could be the fate of the
survivors who now count their inestimable loss? This study entitled ŖGénocide et
traumatisme dans l’univers romanesque de Veronique Tadjoŗis a literary study of
four novels of Veronique Tadjo namely: L’Ombre d’Imana, Reine Pokou, Loin de mon
père and Champs de bataille et d’amour. It examined the origin, manifestation and
instruments of genocide and trauma. The positive and negative effects of genocide and
trauma were also analysed through the selected novels. Using sociological,
psychoanalytical, thematic as well as the ecocritical approaches, the study revealed what
made the Rwandan genocide to remains the worst in Africa. Behaviours of traumatised
victimes revealed that the negative effects of genocide outweigh the positive effects on
the lives of victims. It also revealed that the aftermath of the genocide is unemployment,
poverty and misery which have physically, emotionally and psychologically degraded
victims. It concluded that war brings trauma on victims and can never help a country to
develop economically, socially and politically, hence, the world should be aware of the
dangers of genocide.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DOCTORATE DEGREE IN
FRENCH WITH SPECIALISATION IN
AFRICAN LITERATURE
Keywords
GENOCIDE,, TRAUMATISME,, UNIVERS ROMANSEQUE,, VERONIQUE TADJO.