Ambiguities of witnessing - Law and literature in the time of a truth commission

The complex relationship between law and literature in testimony to crimes before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Sanders, Mark
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Title: Ambiguities of witnessing
Subtitle: Law and literature in the time of a truth commission
Author: Mark Sanders
Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press
Johannesburg, South Africa 2007
ISBN 9781868144488 / ISBN 978-1-86814-448-8
Paperback, 16 x 24 cm, 280 pages

About: Ambiguities of witnessing - Law and literature in the time of a truth commission

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 postapartheid South Africa.

Review of Ambiguities of witnessing - Law and literature in the time of a truth commission:

Derek Attridge, University of York:
Mark Sanders shows a brilliant capacity for theoretical sophistication, careful elucidation of literary and non-literary discourses, and subtle analysis of the rhetorics and faultlines of South Africa's languages. In Ambiguities of Witnessing, he persuasively demonstrates that literature and law, though seemingly opposed, are inextricably imbricated with one another. Ambiguities of witnessing - Law and literature in the time of a truth commission book seals his reputation as a leading voice in Southern African studies and as an important contributor to discussions about the nature of the literary and its relation to the legal, the political, and the ethical.

Contents: Ambiguities of witnessing - Law and literature in the time of a truth commission

Preface
Prologue
Truth Commission Journal and Notes
Remembering Apartheid
Hearing Women
Forgiveness
Reparation
Literature and Testimony
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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