Culture of Dissenting Memory - Truth Commissions in the Global South

List of contents

1. Reassessing South African Truth and Reconciliation: John Kani’s Missing and Performative Demands for Justice 2. The Advancement of Truth Commissions on Past Affairs Along with Democratization in Korea: My Experiences as a Commissioner in Three Different Truth Commissions 3. Memories about Truth: Journalistic Narratives, ‘True Stories’ and the Clash of Memories in Brazil’s National Truth Commission 4. Ubu and the Truth Commission: The Multiple Contexts of the TRC and Ubu 5. Black Memories of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship: The Repression of Black Dances During the 1970s and the State of Rio Truth Commission 6. ‘That’s the Bad Past We Want to Forget’: Partial Truths, Reconciliation and Memory in Namibia’s Post-Apartheid Democracy 7. Notice Well: Memory and Reparation in the Brazilian Documentary Movies about the Dictatorship 8. Literature as Witness: Failure of a TRC Following the Mass Rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina 9. The Practice of Public Apology: Australia Says Sorry to the Stolen Generations 10. The Gacaca Courts: Collective versus Personal Memory and Trauma of the Genocide in Rwanda. Postface: Truth Commissions and the Reinvention of the Past

About the author

Véronique Tadjo is Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was Head of French and Francophone Studies from 2007 to 2015. She was born in Paris and grew up in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She holds a PhD in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne Paris IV, France. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C. She was a lecturer at Abidjan University and Lagos University. She is an award-winning fiction writer, a poet and author of books for young people. She has travelled extensively in Africa, Europe and America. She now shares her time between London and Abidjan.

Summary

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions and the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry, film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions.

Product details

• Authors: Veronique Tadjo, Veronique (Visiting Professor Tadjo
• Assisted by: Véronique Tadjo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367731359
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73135-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Literary Cultures of the Global South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Literary studies: general, Social and cultural anthropology, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law