Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission
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...
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Ambiguities of Witnessing explores the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the body that investigated crimes of the apartheid era in South Africa.
Preface ixPrologue 1Truth Commission Journal and Notes 15Remembering Apartheid 34Hearing Women 59Forgiveness 87Reparation 114Literature and Testimony 147Epilogue 186Notes 193Bibliography 229Index 253
