Cet ouvrage présente la synthèse des récents rapports, publications et textes juridiques produits dans le cadre du Conseil de l'Europe afin d'identifier quelques principes généraux et quelques exemples de stratégies et plans d'action de prévention en ce domaine.

Ils m'ont violee est un recit poignant qui ne laisse pas le lecteur indifferent. Face a un drame qui dure depuis des annees, Masumbuko Mununguri nous offre une fiction cathartique qui demeure neanmoins une invitation a l'action. Comment peut-on rester les bras croises face a tous ces morts ? C'est la question a laquelle le lecteur est oblige de repondre en refermant ce livre. Un temoignage au nom de ceux qui sont morts et qui ne pourront pas parler. Masumbuko se veut le porte-parole de ceux-la. Il tire sa legitimite de sa connaissance de la region dont sa famille est originaire et qu'il visite regulierement voila deja vint ans; vingt ans que l'on tue dans l'indifference generale.

The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art is situated at the crossroads of language, culture and genre; it contends that suffering transcends time, space and cultural specificity. Even when extreme trauma is silenced, it often still emerges in surprising and painful ways. This volume draws together examples from throughout the Francophone world, including countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Rwanda, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, New Caledonia, Quebec and France, and across genres such as autobiography, poetry, theater, film, fiction and visual art to provide a cohesive analysis of the representation of trauma. In addition to the survivors’ expression of trauma, the witnesses and receivers are also taken into account. By gathering studies that explore diverse bodily and psychological traumas through tropes such as repetition, silence and working-through, it tackles ethical responsibility and interrogates how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality through the use of imagination. The aim of this volume is not to question if suffering is representable, but rather to examine to what extent art surpasses its own limitations and goes straight to its essence. The Unspeakable hopes to provide models for the cultural translation of trauma, because, when represented and released from silence and isolation, trauma can give way to the arduous process of healing.