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Reconciliation Commission (reconciliation + commission)
Selected Abstracts,Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant': A Poetics of Truth and ReconciliationJOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 1 2004Adam Gearey There is a voice that tries to speak the truth. This essay will suggest that the discourse on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission [TRC] has perhaps ignored this most invisible of things, and has looked for the truth of the Commission everywhere except where it might be found, if indeed it can be found at all. To the extent that it is possible to oppose the truth of the voice to another truth, it may be useful to make use of a notion of poetics; even a sublime poetics. [source] Post-Apartheid Disgrace: Guilty Masculinities in White South African WritingLITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2005Georgie Horrell In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa J. M. Coetzee writes of the ,system' of guilt and shame, debt and retribution which operates throughout society. He and writers like André Brink, Michiel Heyns and Troy Blacklaws tell stories which traverse and explore the paths tracked by society's quest for healing and restitution. This article considers a selection of transitional, contemporary white novels in South Africa in order to gesture towards discourses of both particular and global postcolonial significance, referring particularly to gender and representations of white masculinity in the post-apartheid era. [source] The Ambiguous Role of Religion in the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionPEACE & CHANGE, Issue 3 2006Megan Shore This article examines the ambiguous role that religion, particularly Christianity, played in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. On the one hand, religious-symbolic discourse was an empowered truth-telling discourse used by victims and survivors in recounting their stories of apartheid abuse. Moreover, it was a discourse publicly affirmed and encouraged by TRC leaders such as Desmond Tutu. On the other hand, religious discourse was prohibited for perpetrators who came forward seeking amnesty; for amnesty applicants, only a legal-forensic mode of truth-telling was authorized by commissioners. We argue that this tension between religious and legal discourse in the TRC has contributed to the establishment of a democratic political culture in South Africa; yet, at the same time, it has also contributed to delays in social and economic justice for victims and survivors. [source] | ||||||||||