Ambiguities of Witnessing

Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission

By:

Mark Sanders

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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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 post-apartheid South Africa.

Author Biography:

Mark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (2002) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory(2006).

Release date NZ

September 26th, 2007

Author

Mark Sanders

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

280

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Dimensions

3895x5830x712

ISBN-13

9780804756150

Product ID

11353894

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