1st Edition
Traumatic Storytelling and Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa Performing Signs of Injury
By Christopher J. Colvin
Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the practice of traumatic storytelling that emerged out of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and came to play a key role in the lives of the members of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-era political violence. Group members found traumatic storytelling both frustrating and yet also an important form of memory work that shaped how they saw... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. A Weekend in the Boland
2. Traumatic Storytelling at the TRC
3. From the TRC to the Trauma Clinic
4. Moral Economies of Traumatic Storytelling
5. Political Economies of Traumatic Storytelling
6. Traumatic Storytelling in Art, Prayer and Politics
7. Virtuous, Virtuoso and Virtual Subjectivities
8. The Uncertain Powers of Traumatic Storytelling
Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Christopher J. Colvin is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
