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Drawn from a conference held in Calgary, Canada, in February 2014, the essays in this volume present new scholarship and teaching perspectives on the problem of genocide and the identification of genocide with atrocity and how this frames and impacts the understanding and prevention of genocide. Scholars working in various fields in the US and Canada address genocide in Sri Lanka, Canada, and Armenia, as well as the Srebrenica genocide and Memorial; William L. Patterson’s petition We Charge Genocide: The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People, directed at the United Nations; the Ottoman genocide of Christian minorities and the victimization of the Tutsis, Hutus, and Twa populations in the Rwandan genocide; an undergraduate course on war and genocide in children’s literature; Nazi atrocities and Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader; and theatrical representations of genocide in Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End and Wafaa Bilal’s Shoot an Iraqi and …and Counting. Distributed by Longleaf Services, Inc. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
