Research Catalog

Title

Memory, narrative, and forgiveness : perspectives on the unfinished journeys of the past / edited by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Chris Van Der Merwe.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla.
• Van der Merwe, Chris.

Description

xvii, 424 p.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Reconciliation > Political aspects > Case studies
• Reconciliation > Political aspects > Congresses
• South Africa > Truth and Reconciliation Commission > Congresses
• Reconciliation > Political aspects > South Africa > Congresses

Note

• "Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2006 to mark the 10th anniversary of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The next chapter : consequences of societal trauma / Vamik D. Volkan -- Handing down the Holocaust in Germany : a reflection on the dialogue between second-generation descendants of perpetrators and survivors / Beata Hammerich ... [et al.] -- The lasting legacy of trauma : understanding obstacles to resolution following traumatic experiences / David Edwards -- The pivotal role of acknowledgement in social healing / Paula Green -- Forgiveness and narrative / Charles L. Griswold -- Forgiveness and history : a reinterpretation of post-conflict testimony / Dennis B. Klein -- The lived experience of receiving empathy and forgiveness for six South African perpetrators / Marleen Ramsey -- Working through the past : some thoughts on forgiveness in cultural context / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela -- Confessions, apologies, and perpetrators / Don Foster -- Coming to terms with accountability : why the reintegration of former child soldiers in northern Uganda fails / Grace Akello, Annemiek Richters, and Ria Reis -- Forgifting : poetic and performative forgiveness in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Jill Scott -- A space of (im)possibility : Ian Gabriel's forgiveness / Angelo Ferrillo -- Exploring the relationship between forgiveness and socio-economic development in post-apartheid South Africa : the ongoing dialogue of reconciliation within the domestic labour sphere / Jennifer N. Fish -- Literature as truth and reconciliation commission : examples from Afrikaans literature / Chris N. van der Merwe -- Truth and reconciliation in the contemporary South African novel / Ewald Mengel -- Stages of complicity, stages of healing : a look at two theatrical responses to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / April Sizemore-Barber -- Communal remembering : testimonies of human rights violations from Cape Town in the 1980s / Mary Bock -- Memory work and memorialisation in the new South Africa / Kay Schaffer -- Violence and the struggle for coherence in South African transformation / Jenny Parkes and Elaine Unterhalter.

Call Number

Sc D 10-1397

ISBN

• 9781443801584
• 1443801585

LCCN

2009379834

OCLC

316435475

Title

Memory, narrative, and forgiveness : perspectives on the unfinished journeys of the past / edited by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Chris Van Der Merwe.

Imprint

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla.

Van der Merwe, Chris.

Research Call Number

Sc D 10-1397