TY - BOOK ID - 7199674 TI - Ambiguities of witnessing : law and literature in the time of a truth commission PY - 2007 SN - 9780804756150 0804756155 PB - Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Truth commissions KW - Human rights KW - Amnesty KW - Reconciliation KW - Political aspects KW - South Africa. KW - South Africa KW - Politics and government KW - Political crimes and offenses - South Africa KW - Truth commissions - South Africa KW - Human rights - South Africa KW - Amnesty - South Africa KW - Reconciliation - Political aspects - South Africa KW - South Africa - Politics and government - 1989-1994 KW - South Africa - Politics and government - 1994 KW - -Amnesty KW - -Political crimes and offenses - South Africa KW - -Political crimes and offenses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7199674 AB - 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. ER -