1st Edition
Staging Solidarity Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum.... Read more
Chapter 1 A Home for All; Chapter 2 Theoretical Backdrop; Chapter 3 Weaving the Threads of a Cultural Trauma: Testimony at the TRC; Chapter 4 Broadcasting the Trauma Drama: The Media as Sympathetic Interpreters; Chapter 5 Extending the TRC Narrative: Analyzing Positive Audience Response; Chapter 6 Ramifications and Conclusions;
Biography
Tanya Goodman
Tanya Goodman brings to this study of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission an impressive set of analytic skills as well as a deep sensitivity to the cultural climate of South Africa. The hearings of the Commission were political theater, ritual performance, judicial procedure, moral pageant, and public ceremony all at once. They played a vital role in the beginnings of what may well become a true national community, and Goodman has caught their character and their spirit wonderfully.
-Kai Erikson, Yale University
