Christopher J. Colvin

Traumatic Storytelling and Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Performing Signs of Injury

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the practice and function of traumatic story telling as part of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the role it played in the lives of Khulumani as victims of apartheid-era political violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429959028
• Artikelnr.: 56887002

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Colvin is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. A Weekend in the Boland
2. Traumatic Storytelling at the TRC
3. From the TRC to the Trauma Clinic
4. Moral Economies of Traumatic Storytelling
5. Political Economies of Traumatic Storytelling
6. Traumatic Storytelling in Art, Prayer and Politics
7. Virtuous, Virtuoso and Virtual Subjectivities
8. The Uncertain Powers of Traumatic Storytelling
Conclusion
References
Index