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The Culture of Dissenting Memory : Truth Commissions in the Global South

Author :  Véronique Tadjo

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Country
India
Publisher
Routledge, London / Manohar, New Delhi
ISBN 9780367343361
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info xvi;171p.; 23 cm. hb Includes Index.
Product Weight 350 gms.
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This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth Commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry, film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth Commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth Commissions across the global South. From the inaugural truth Commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America, to the truth and reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca Courts and National unity and reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia, various truth Commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses.

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