Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission

Mark Sanders

Published by Stanford University Press 2007

Ambiguities of Witnessing

Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission

Mark Sanders

In the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503626522

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The first book to explore the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony to crimes of apartheid before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ambiguities of Witnessing closely analyzes key individual testimonies. Whereas most existing books on this and other truth commissions are weighed down by abstract legal and philosophical discussion, this book does justice to witnesses' public testimony in a fascinating and theoretically sophisticated investigation of questions of human rights, mourning, forgiveness, and reparation. Framed by the personal, Ambiguities of Witnessing also meditates on what it means for the writer to respond to this epochal event in the history of post-apartheid South Africa.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
§1 Truth Commission Journal and Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
§2 Remembering Apartheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
§3 Hearing Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
§4 Forgiveness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
§5 Reparation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9781503626522