Short description
The first title to explore the complex relationship between law and literature in crimes of apartheid brought before South Africa's Truth and reconciliation commission, ambiguities of witnessing analyses key individual testimonies.
Long description
The first title to explore the complex relationship between law and literature in crimes of apartheid brought before South Africa's Truth and reconciliation commission, ambiguities of witnessing analyses key individual testimonies. Whereas most existing books on this and other truth commissions are weighed down by abstract legal and philosophical discussion, this title 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.