ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book clarifies the need to understand the efficacy of memory and memorializing in the context of a multifaceted and horrific event such as the one-hundred-day genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. It shows how, even several decades later, genocide is still apprehended piecemeal, through a meld of perspectives, and through an interdisciplinary lens. The book then analyzes justice and memory work from multiple methods. It also examines memorial commemoration and its cultural and political effects, the creation of collective memory through fiction and poetry, and the emotional evocations of photography. The book presents an interplay between the empirical, scholarly works and these works of the imagination, suggesting that the work of memory, fused as it is with the pursuit of justice under genocide's shadow, is intrinsically interdisciplinary.
