Memorializing the Past (PDF)
Everyday Life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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 the "new." Through this process a public language of "memory" has been carved into collective modes of meaning. It is a language that seems deprived of the hopes, dreams, and possibilities for the promise of a just and redemptive future it once nurtured.
Truth commissions are profoundly implicated in the social politics of memorialization. Memory, as a conceptual, historical, and experiential discourse about "the past," relates to the ways in which cruelty is integrated into societal understandings, which include cognitive and philosophic frameworks and constructions of social meaning. The politics of historical truth, of memory and of justice, play out in unintended ways. There is not only the ongoing struggle for survivors of state terror, but also the ways that the everyday shapings of silences, the emptiness of reconciliation and the fracturing of hope remain embedded in political life.
Truth commissions are profoundly implicated in the social politics of memorialization. Memory, as a conceptual, historical, and experiential discourse about "the past," relates to the ways in which cruelty is integrated into societal understandings, which include cognitive and philosophic frameworks and constructions of social meaning. The politics of historical truth, of memory and of justice, play out in unintended ways. There is not only the ongoing struggle for survivors of state terror, but also the ways that the everyday shapings of silences, the emptiness of reconciliation and the fracturing of hope remain embedded in political life.
Autoren-Porträt von Heidi Peta Grunebaum
Heidi Peta Grunebaum is a research associate at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa where she taught history. She has published several essays on memory, narrative, and the aftermath of state violence. Her work has appeared in PLMA, Journal of African Literatures, Current Writing, and Fantomas. 
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- Autor: Heidi Peta Grunebaum
- 2013, 185 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Transaction Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1412844312
- ISBN-13: 9781412844314
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2013
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