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Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Kesselring, Rita

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Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights

African HistoryAnthropologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0804799784
ISBN13: 9780804799782
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 12 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory. In 2002, victims of apartheid-era violence filed suit against multinational corporations, accusing them of aiding and abetting the security forces of the apartheid regime. While the litigation made its way through the U.S. courts, thousands of victims of gross human rights violations have had to cope with painful memories of violence. They have also confronted an official discourse claiming that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s sufficiently addressed past injuries. This book shows victims' attempts to emancipate from their experiences by participating in legal actions, but also by creating new forms of sociality among themselves and in relation to broader South African society.

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