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Apartheid --- Human rights --- Reconciliation --- Truth commissions --- Blacks --- Segregation --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Political aspects --- Evaluation --- South Africa. --- Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (South Africa) --- South African Truth Commission --- TRC --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) --- South Africa --- Politics and government --- Black people --- Afrique du Sud. Truth and reconciliation commission --- Réconciliation --- Justice restaurative --- Aspect politique --- Afrique du Sud

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This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.

Melancholy in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- South African fiction. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission --- Melancholie --- South Africa --- In literature.

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In the context of comparative legal history, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is contrasted with the Study Commission for Working Through the History and the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany. In an extensive examination, central aspects of the commissions' mandates and their implementation are analyzed, thus providing a deeper understanding of the two truth commissions. Whilst the final reports of the commissions serve as a central source, personal interviews with experts in transitional justice and contemporary witnesses from South Africa are also included in the work. Im Rahmen der vergleichenden Rechtsgeschichte wird die südafrikanische Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission der Enquete-Kommission zur Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland gegenübergestellt. In einer eingehenden Untersuchung werden zentrale Aspekte der Kommissionsmandate und ihrer Umsetzungen durch die Kommissionen analysiert und so ein tieferes Verständnis der beiden Wahrheitskommissionen vermittelt. Dabei werden nicht nur die Abschlussberichte der Kommissionen als zentrale Grundlage herangezogen. Es finden auch persönliche Interviews mit Expert:innen der Transitional Justice und Zeitzeug:innen aus Südafrika Eingang in die Arbeit.

LAM --- Aufarbeitung von Unrecht, Demokratie, Diktatur, Kollektiver Schlussstrich, Lustration, Menschenrechtsverletzung, Opferentschädigung, Politischer Umbruch, Staatliche Verbrechen, Stasi-Unterlagen, Transitional Justice, Unrechtsaufarbeitung, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Wahrheitssuche, Wiedergutmachung, Wahrheitskommission, Aufarbeitung, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Enquete-Kommission

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"An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication.Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa’s enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country’s formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation’s ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons. And while this study surveys some of the many serious critiques levelled at the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2001), these misgivings help situate the plural, improvised approach to reconciliation that has arguably emerged from the margins of the cultural sphere in the years since. Improvisation serves here as a separate way of both thinking and doing reconciliation. It recalibrates the concept according to a series of deliberative, agonistic and iterative, rather than monumental, interventions, rendering reconciliation in terms that make failure a necessary condition for its future realisation."

Confession. --- Reconciliation --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- South Africa. --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Auricular confession --- Church discipline --- Forgiveness of sin --- Absolution --- Penance --- Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (South Africa) --- South African Truth Commission --- TRC --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) --- Race question --- South Africa;transition;drama;theatre;film;stage;Marc Kaplin;democracy;Truth;Commission;performance;separation;Farber;Ingrid Gavshon;Ramadan Suleman;justice;human rights

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Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States explores rhetorical attempts to authorize the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission—a grassroots initiative established in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2004 to investigate a traumatic and controversial event in the city’s past. The book demonstrates that the field of transitional justice has given rise to a transnational rhetorical tradition that provides practitioners with resources to act in their own particular contexts. It then shows, through detailed analyses, how the Greensboro commissioners and their advocates made use of this rhetorical tradition in their attempts to establish the Commission’s authority in the community. Calling attention to the rhetorical moves shared among those working in the field of transitional justice, this study offers insights into the development of transitional justice in the United States and other liberal democracies. This book is relevant to scholars and practitioners of transitional justice as it describes mechanisms of transitional justice that are frequently overlooked: rhetorical mechanisms. It also speaks to any readers interested in the communicative strategies of truth commissions.

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