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This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as Hutu and Tutsi.

Purity and Exile Violence Memory and National

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/08/1995
      ISBN13: 9780226502724, 978-0226502724
      ISBN10: 0226502724
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      Historiography Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Political oppression and persecution

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as Hutu and Tutsi.

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