Tanya Goodman, Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander

Staging Solidarity (eBook, PDF)

Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in a public forum. Rather than simply serving as data for setting the historical record straight, this book shows that it was not only the content of these testimonies but also how these stories were told and what values were attached to them that became significant. Goodman argues that the performative nature of the TRC process effectively designated the past as profane and simultaneously imagined a sacred future community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317251491
• Artikelnr.: 49352739

Autorenporträt

Tanya Goodman

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 A Home for All
Chapter 2 Theoretical Backdrop
Chapter 3 Weaving the Threads of a Cultural Trauma: Testimony at the TRC
Chapter 4 Broadcasting the Trauma Drama: The Media as Sympathetic Interpreters
Chapter 5 Extending the TRC Narrative: Analyzing Positive Audience Response
Chapter 6 Ramifications and Conclusions