Memorializing the Past: Everyday Life in South Africa After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

ISBN-13: 9781138512054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 185 str.

Heidi Grunebaum

Opis

This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Limits and Possibilities of Integrating Atrocity, 1. Temporalities of the “New Nation”: The TRC and the Discursive Power of Transition, 2. Disembodiments: Testimony, Narrative, and the Commoditization of Suffering, 3. Kept in Place: Memorial Cartographies and the Spatial Politics of Containment, 4. Burials and Removals: Historical Erasure and Everyday Life, Afterwords, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Heidi Grunebaum