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Elizabeth Applegate

Contributor

Elizabeth Applegate

Elizabeth Applegate holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University.  Her research focuses on testimony and on literary and theatrical representations of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.  Her work has appeared in Research in African Literatures, The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual (Cambridge Scholars Press), and in the forthcoming volume The Body in Francophone Literature (McFarland).  She currently teaches French language and Francophone Literature at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and splits her time between Maryland and Brooklyn, N.Y.

Articles by Elizabeth Applegate

Cyarwa cya nyarwaya
By Michaella Rugwizangoga
Your stories flow in the blood of my dear ones
Translated from French by Elizabeth Applegate
Identity
By Michaella Rugwizangoga
Rwanda, today, lets me tread on its soil.
Translated from French by Elizabeth Applegate
A Coward’s Repentance
By Esther Mujawayo & Souâd Belhaddad
Genocide works because, inside of you, genocide never ends.
Translated from French by Elizabeth Applegate
Writing Genocide: Poetry and Prose from Rwanda
By Elizabeth Applegate
There is no single story of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.