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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.

Political crimes and offenses --- Truth commissions --- Human rights --- Amnesty --- Reconciliation --- Political aspects --- South Africa. --- South Africa --- Politics and government --- Political crimes and offenses - South Africa --- Truth commissions - South Africa --- Human rights - South Africa --- Amnesty - South Africa --- Reconciliation - Political aspects - South Africa --- South Africa - Politics and government - 1989-1994 --- South Africa - Politics and government - 1994 --- -Amnesty --- -Political crimes and offenses - South Africa --- -Political crimes and offenses

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Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays of many different types, illustrate the diversity of opinions in the Black South about the war and the war period in America. For nearly sixteen years, the excerpts that were never published languished in Brown's manuscript collection at Howard University. Now, for the first time, all of the completed pieces of unpublished writings are combined with the few published sections into the book that Brown envisioned. The legacy Brown left us is not only a superb portrait of the way in which African Americans of the mid-century talked and lived; he also provided a methodology that oral and written historians will find extremely useful. This is clearly a document from another time, as its now outdated title reminds us, but it reveals a world that still informs our sense of ourself as a nation. In fact, it is an unforgettable history, which Brown has cast in a bright, elucidating new light.

Noirs américains --- Histoire orale --- Vie rurale --- États-Unis (sud) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- 20e siècle --- Conditions sociales --- Biographies --- Histoire