| Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission Contributor(s): Sanders, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804756155 ISBN-13: 9780804756150 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.680 |
| LCCN: 2007025909 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.12 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |