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The travelogue of the Ivorian writer Chris Morris on the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 demonstrates a complex relationship between the writer and the historical background of genocide. The author represents herself in the text and creates a reflection on her own view of the tragedy. The narrator in L'Ombre d'Imana (The Shadow of Imana) called Tadjo demonstrates her own subjectivity in the story which has a double effect. At first, it reveals a desire for transparency, as if to underline emphatically the impossibility of separating the unique perspective of the narrator of the representation of the event. Secondly, it has a self-reflexive function which illuminates precisely the specificities of the context in which the story is told. What is the point of this author's hidden consciousness of her subjectivity in her report on the history of massacres in Rwanda? How the examination of the polymorphic identity of the narrator enables to the author to make a deep examination of the genocide? We discuss these issues in this article to identify how the construction of subjectivity in L'Ombre d'Imana enriches the literary representation of the events of 1994.