Narrating transitional justice : memory in the age of truth and reconciliation / edited by Paul Ugor and Bonny Ibhawoh.

Other author Ugor, Paul, editor
Other author Ibhawoh, Bonny, editor
Format Book
PublicationMontreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesConfronting atrocity: human rights and restorative justice series ;
Contents The Invention of Difficult Pasts / Juan Gabriel Vásquez -- A Storage Place of Memory: Misremembered Narratives of Reconciliation, Restoration, and Betrayal / Zakes Mda -- Recovering Ancestral Memory in Mohale Mashigo's The Yearning and "The Palermo" / Shane Graham -- The Disappeared: Memory, Narratives, and Representation in Colombia / Julian Numpaque -- What Is a Transitional Narrative? / Valeria Vegh Weis -- The Politicization of Memory: Genocide Narratives, Transitional Justice, and the Art of Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Rwanda / Adeolu Oyekan -- One Hundred Years of Solitude: Memory, Impunity, and Human Rights / Alfredo Duplat and Andrés Molina Ochoa -- Between Justice and Truth: The Legal Prosecution of Third Reich Crimes in Giulio Ricciarelli's Labyrinth of Lies / Pascal Michelberger -- History on Film in Post-Genocide Rwanda (2004-14): "Everybody has got a different story" / Alison MacAulay -- Unbraiding the Significance of Testimony, Ceremony, Healing, and Hair in Three Contemporary First Nations Plays / Juliann Knaus -- The Moment of Maneuver in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Hearings: A Critique of Nation and Narration in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull / Paul Ugor -- Art and Justice in Bakhtiyar Ali's Shari Mosiqare Spiyekan / Jeannette Okur -- Memorial Museums in Guatemala: Agents of Transitional Justice / Martha Galvan Mandujano and JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz -- The Haunts of Biafra Atrocity Photography / Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba -- Phantoms and Truth Commissions: The Subversive Power of Trauma Narratives in Post-Conflict Latin America / Alfredo Duplat and Andrés Molina Ochoa.
Abstract "In truth and reconciliation settings, particular narratives are recounted by victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and legal experts, each employing distinct rhetorical strategies. Their testimonies, reported by the media and represented in various cultural forms, profoundly influence public understanding and collective memory in post-conflict societies. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars across the humanities and social sciences, policymakers and cultural producers, Narrating Transitional Justice examines truth and reconciliation commissions as acts of public storytelling. Contributors elaborate on how these testimonies function as creative grist for cultural producers to reconstruct, redefine, and reappraise transitional justice work. They further examine the inimitable insights that creative imaginaries - in the form of literature, theatre, film, fine art, popular music, street art, and online media - offer about the remaking of nations fractured by long histories of human rights violations. Critically reflecting on debates around the centrality of storytelling in transitional justice processes, Narrating Transitional Justice asks: what are the discourses embedded in the varied stories of reconciliation actors, and how do these function as acts of state-making after atrocity?"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Issued in other formOnline version: Narrating transitional justice. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025 0228026245 9780228026242
ISBN9780228026235
ISBN0228026237 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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