Literary Legacies Of The South African Trc
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Literary Legacies Of The South African Trc
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Author : Francesca Mussi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-05-18
Literary Legacies Of The South African Trc written by Francesca Mussi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Fiction categories.
Since the 1970s, truth and reconciliation commissions have become increasingly popularised as options for addressing historical injustices, especially within the context of dictatorial regimes. Of the many truth commissions to date, the South African TRC has been the one that has captured public attention throughout the world, providing a model for subsequent truth commissions. The South African TRC has also constituted and still constitutes an intriguing source for writing. Literary Legacies of the South African TRC explores the capacities of fiction for providing the TRC and people’s testimonies with a productive afterlife, for challenging definitions of trauma, truth and reconciliation, for inviting readers to keep the dialogue about the past open, and to think actively about the strategies adopted in addressing that past and their implications in the present. It explores these capabilities as evidenced in the work of a wide range of writers, some known to international Anglophone readers, including J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, some less well-known, including Afrikaans-language novelist Marlene van Niekerk, and others from a new generation including Marli Roode, Kopano Matlwa, and Thando Mgqolozana. The book aims to contribute to discourses of trauma, truth-telling, and reconciliation from a literary perspective, as well as placing emphasis on the profound interconnection between fiction, history, and trauma in conflict and post-conflict areas such as South Africa.
The Trc Of South Africa
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Author : Siphiwe Ignatius Dube
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Trc Of South Africa written by Siphiwe Ignatius Dube and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literature categories.
Despite the length of time that has passed since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC) declared its duties done, it continues to have far-reaching consequences for the understanding and treatment of the issues of forgiveness, justice, memory, truth, and reconciliation within South Africa. This legacy, however, also extends beyond the South African context. Since other such Commissions have sprung up elsewhere in the world, it is imperative that the TRC, currently regarded as paradigmatic in the approach now taken for granted in dealing with post-conflict reconciliation, be thoroughly examined in order that its legacy may prove more positive and expansive.
South African Literature After The Truth Commission
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Author : S. Graham
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-04-27
South African Literature After The Truth Commission written by S. Graham and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid.
The Limits Of Transition The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission 20 Years On
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Author : Mia Swart
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-07
The Limits Of Transition The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission 20 Years On written by Mia Swart and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Law categories.
The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.
The Legacy Of A Troubled Past
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Author : Bernard Cros
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
The Legacy Of A Troubled Past written by Bernard Cros and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with History categories.
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, South Africa has been engaged in an unprecedented exercise of national soul-searching, torn between the need to lay to rest centuries of racial conflict and the desire to come to terms with its traumatic history. This book asks whether the country has begun to turn the corner on the legacy of collective hurt. To do so it ranges in scope across 350 years of South African history, encompassing the struggle against the apartheid regime, the downfall of white supremacy, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the first 25 years of democracy, up to more recent movements, such as #RhodesMustFall, or the inquests into the 2012 Marikana massacre, that point to the persistence of traumatic memory in contemporary society. The authors assembled here set out to analyse the representation of such memory, how it has been woven into narratives, recorded, preserved and questioned, and how issues of individual and collective responsibility have been grafted onto it through the visual arts, literature, political discourse and public action. In focusing on memory along with its derived forms of memorialization, collective memory, nostalgia, or post-memory, our contributors pose a fundamental question: is South Africa finally coming to the end of the post-apartheid transition period? Do the decades of memory work on racial violence and repression examined here hold out hope for the nation to make peace with its past?
After Dictatorship
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Author : Peter Hoeres
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-02-20
After Dictatorship written by Peter Hoeres and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-20 with History categories.
Numerous studies concerning transitional justice exist. However, comparatively speaking, the effects actually achieved by measures for coming to terms with dictatorships have seldom been investigated. There is an even greater lack of transnational analyses. This volume contributes to closing this gap in research. To this end, it analyses processes of coming to terms with the past in seven countries with different experiences of violence and dictatorship. Experts have drawn up detailed studies on transitional justice in Albania, Argentina, Ethiopia, Chile, Rwanda, South Africa and Uruguay. Their analyses constitute the empirical material for a comparative study of the impact of measures introduced within the context of transitional justice. It becomes clear that there is no sure formula for dealing with dictatorships. Successes and deficits alike can be observed in relation to the individual instruments of transitional justice - from criminal prosecution to victim compensation. Nevertheless, the South American states perform much better than those on the African continent. This depends less on the instruments used than on political and social factors. Consequently, strategies of transitional justice should focus more closely on these contextual factors.
Good Medicine Stories
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Author : FRANCESCA. MUSSI
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-09-28
Good Medicine Stories written by FRANCESCA. MUSSI and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian Residential School system, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the few commissions to have been established in a Western, long-standing liberal-democratic reality such as Canada's. It thus becomes paramount to examine the extent to which the TRC's core principles of truth-telling, restorative justice, and reconciliation engage in productive dialogue with the settler-colonial context of Canada and, particularly, with Indigenous philosophies and epistemologies. Good Medicine Stories does exactly that through the lens of fiction. Interweaving Indigenous, settler colonial, trauma and gender studies on the one hand, and intersecting literary, political, historical and cultural approaches on the other, Good Medicine Stories explores the capacities of Indigenous fiction for challenging and amplifying the work carried out by the Canadian TRC. Through analysis of a unique selection of Indigenous contemporary literary texts that were produced during and after the completion of the Canadian Commission, the book shows the role of fiction in keeping the dialogue on truth, justice, and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples open and relevant to our present and our future. It also demonstrates the role of Indigenous fiction in foregrounding Indigenous healing, spiritual regeneration and resurgence.
Literary Responses To The South African Trc
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Author : Francesca Mussi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Literary Responses To The South African Trc written by Francesca Mussi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Trauma Memory And Narrative In The Contemporary South African Novel
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Trauma Memory And Narrative In The Contemporary South African Novel written by and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of trauma, they make clear how the psychic deformations and injuries left behind by racism and colonialism cannot be mended by material reparation or by simply reversing economic and political power-structures. Western trauma theories – as developed by scholars such as Caruth, van der Kolk, Herman and others – are insufficient for analysing the more complex situation in a postcolony such as South Africa. This is because Western trauma concepts focus on the individual traumatized by a single identifiable event that causes PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). What we need is an understanding of trauma that sees it not only as a result of an identifiable event but also as the consequence of an historical condition – in the case of South Africa, that of colonialism, and, more specifically, of apartheid. For most black and coloured South Africans, the structural violence of apartheid’s laws were the existential condition under which they had to exist. The living conditions in the townships, pass laws, relocation, and racial segregation affected great parts of the South African population and were responsible for the collective traumatization of several generations. This trauma, however, is not an unclaimed (and unclaimable) experience. Postcolonial thinkers who have been reflecting on the experience of violence and trauma in a colonial context, writing from within a Fanonian tradition, have, on the contrary, believed in the importance of reclaiming the past and of transcending mechanisms of victimization and resentment, so typical of traumatized consciousnesses. Narration and the novel have a decisive role to play here.
J M Coetzee S Disgrace A Realistic Criticism Of New South Africa
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Author : Niklas Manhart
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2012-02
J M Coetzee S Disgrace A Realistic Criticism Of New South Africa written by Niklas Manhart and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Englische Philologie), course: Proseminar Postcolonial Literature, language: English, abstract: Ever since its publication in 1999, J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel Disgrace has stirred up a lot of controversy. Its negative depiction of blacks has been seen as an endorsement of white racist stereotypes. In this essay, I first analyze the degree of realism in Disgrace. Second, I assess how Disgrace can be read as a criticism of "New South Africa", a decade after the dismantling of the Apartheid system
