Literary Legacies Of The South African Trc

Author : Francesca Mussi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030430559

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Literary Legacies of the South African TRC by Francesca Mussi Pdf

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.

Author : Mia Swart,Karin van Marle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004339569

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The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on by Mia Swart,Karin van Marle Pdf

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.

Author : Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781431404438

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Sounds of a Cowhide Drum/Imisindo Yesigubhu Sesikhumba Senkomo by Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali Pdf

Originally published in 1971 by Lionel Abrahams' Renoster Books, thisbookquickly became a classic of South African literature, but has been unavailable for many years. This new edition carries a simultaneous isiZulu translation of the poems, and a new foreword by Nadine Gordimer."

Author : Paul Gready
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136902208

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The Era of Transitional Justice by Paul Gready Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Hoeres,Hubertus Knabe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110796629

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After Dictatorship by Peter Hoeres,Hubertus Knabe Pdf

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.

Author : FRANCESCA. MUSSI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1835536735

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Good Medicine Stories by FRANCESCA. MUSSI Pdf

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.

Author : S. Graham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230620971

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South African Literature after the Truth Commission by S. Graham Pdf

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.

Author : Ole Bubenzer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047430476

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Post-TRC Prosecutions in South Africa by Ole Bubenzer Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis and evaluation of criminal prosecutions required after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty process, putting the issue into a normative and practical perspective of transitional justice in South Africa.

Author : Bernard Cros,Mathilde Rogez,Gilles Teulie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800858220

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The Legacy of a Troubled Past by Bernard Cros,Mathilde Rogez,Gilles Teulie Pdf

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?

Author : Annelies Verdoolaege
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291615

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Reconciliation Discourse by Annelies Verdoolaege Pdf

This volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. The central proposition of this book is that the TRC can be regarded as a mechanism that leads to the hegemony of specific discourses, thus excercising power. The analysis illustrates how, through a certain type of reconciliation discourse constructed at the TRC hearings, a reconciliation-oriented reality took shape in post-TRC South Africa. Basically, the study points to the long-term implications a truth commission can exert on a traumatised post-conflict society. The book is unique on several levels: TRC discourse is explored in-depth on the basis of personal stories from TRC testifiers; a combination of Poststructuralist and Critical Discourse Analysis approaches form the theoretical foundations; and an extensive bibliography provides an impressive database of TRC publications.

Author : Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521802199

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The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Richard A. Wilson Pdf

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid. However, the TRC's restorative justice approach did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. It argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse.

Author : Wilmot Godfrey James,Linda Van de Vijver
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822029828977

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After the TRC by Wilmot Godfrey James,Linda Van de Vijver Pdf

An important symposium on the process and legacy of the TRC that looks at historical and comparative, local and international perspectives, as well as unfinished business and building the assets of the nation. Has South Africa dealt effectively with the past, and is the country ready to face the future? What are the challenges facing both government and civil society in the years ahead? These and other questions are explored in this collection of essays by international and local commentators on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A range of perspectives on whether the TRC met its objectives of truth and reconciliation is presented. The areas of particular contention - the payment of reparation, the granting of amnesty, and memorialisation - are also examined. Finally, the major challenges facing South Africa are identified, and ways of meeting these challenges and developing the assets of the nation are explored.

Author : D. Mafe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137364937

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Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature by D. Mafe Pdf

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization.

Author : Andrea Lollini
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781845457648

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Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa by Andrea Lollini Pdf

Over the last fifteen years, the South African postapartheid Transitional Amnesty Process – implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – has been extensively analyzed by scholars and commentators from around the world and from almost every discipline of human sciences. Lawyers, historians, anthropologists and sociologists as well as political scientists have tried to understand, describe and comment on the ‘shocking’ South African political decision to give amnesty to all who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes committed during the apartheid era. Investigating the postapartheid transition in South Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective involving constitutional law, criminal law, history and political science, this book explores the overlapping of the postapartheid constitution-making process and the Amnesty Process for political violence under apartheid and shows that both processes represent important innovations in terms of constitutional law and transitional justice systems. Both processes contain mechanisms that encourage the constitution of the unity of the political body while ensuring future solidity and stability. From this perspective, the book deals with the importance of several concepts such as truth about the past, publicly shared memory, unity of the political body and public confession.

Author : Alex Boraine,Janet Levy,Ronel Scheffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCSC:32106017974350

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Dealing with the Past by Alex Boraine,Janet Levy,Ronel Scheffer Pdf