1st Edition
Memorializing the Past Everyday Life in South Africa After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Edited By Heidi Grunebaum
Copyright 2011
185 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
185 Pages
by
Routledge
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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). It is an examination of the ways that the institutionalization of memory has managed perceptions of time and "transition," of events and happenings, of sense and emotion, of violence and recovery, of the "past" and... Read more
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
Biography
Heidi Grunebaum
