Narrative and Healing in the Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Sandra Young

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Memory, violence, and history War, Law, and Justice South African History and Culture

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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission generated the extraordinary hope that individual testimonies would bring about national catharsis. This article asks whether narrative structure, shaped by the language and rituals of the church, psychotherapy, and nation-building, encourages an orientation towards the future that sanctions forgetting as well as remembering.

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1995Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression 1992Testimony: crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history 1985The body in pain 2000Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa 2013Performativity and Performance 2002Reconciliation Without Justice

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