ABSTRACT
Narratives – works and testimonies – of the Rwandan genocide tend to use realistic methods even for fiction. Realism is a narrative technique by which the references to the event are clearly expressed or at least implied. Intertextuality is pervasive in narratives on the Rwandan genocide: evocation of themes and words concerning the Holocaust, African literature, world literature and Rwandan history and culture. Literary and testimonial narratives, with their flexibility of form and structure, offer a fruitful space in which to create and recreate experience for a broad range of readers. The texts evoke both factual and emotive content, build multiple narrative voices and enunciative positions, and recover personal voices to bring about dialogue between the writer and the reader. The goal of many narratives is the production of identification between the reader and the protagonist in order to determine what is right or wrong.
