Abstract
This chapter focuses on Sara Novic’s Girl at War (2015), Boubacar Diop’s Murambi, The Book of Bones (2006), and Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan (2012) as three seminal examples of literary representations of extreme violence and regimes of memory from different geocultural contexts, including the Former Socialist Federal Republics of Yugoslavia – with an emphasis on Croatia – Rwanda, Cambodia, and Vietnam. This chapter argues that common to all fictional texts is an insistence on the everyday as the site of genocide memories. Secondly, the chapter explores how genocide texts demonstrate the construction of the self around genocide memories, and points to the role of affective memories in the making of communities. In this respect, the larger aim is to discuss what Stef Craps (2013) has called “cross-traumatic affiliation” and Michael Rothberg’s (2011) “multidirectional memory” by bringing together cases of genocide and mass violence and regimes of memory from different literary-cultural contexts. Finally, it argues that we can discern the rise of “cosmopolitan memory regimes” that serve the purpose of documenting a global precariat public sphere.
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