IMPROVISING RECONCILIATION : confession after the truth commission PDF
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Improvising Reconciliation Improvising Reconciliation Confession after the Truth Commission • Ed Charlton Liverpool University Press First published 2021 by Liverpool University Press 4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU Copyright © 2021 Ed Charlton All rights reserved An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library on publication. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data A British Library CIP record is available ISBN 978-1-80034-926-1 paperback ISBN 978-1-80034-480-8 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-80085-842-8 ePub Cover image: David Koloane, Three Women (2015). Courtesy Estate late David Koloane and Goodman Gallery. Photo by Anthea Pokroy. This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pilot uses cutting-edge publishing technology to produce open access digital editions of high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs from leading university presses. Free digital editions can be downloaded from: Books at JSTOR, EBSCO, Internet Archive, OAPEN, Project MUSE, and many other open repositories. While the digital edition is free to download, read, and share, the book is under copyright and covered by the following Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consult www.creativecommons.org if you have questions about your rights to reuse the material in this book. When you cite the book, please include the following URL for its Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3828/9781800344808 We are eager to learn more about how you discovered this title and how you are using it. We hope you will spend a few minutes answering a couple of questions at this url: https://www.longleafservices.org/shmp-survey/ More information about the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot can be found at https://www.longleafservices.org. For May and Georgine, and William, in memory. • Contents Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xiii Introduction ‘This Thing Called Reconciliation’ 1 Chapter One Apartheid Acting Out: Duma Kumalo and Reconciliation’s Melancholy Scene 30 Chapter Two Risking Reconciliation: On Tragedy, Failure, and Transgression 62 Chapter Three The Melodrama of Forgiveness: Propriety and Popular Film 92 Chapter Four Telling Stories the Way We Like: Zulu Love Letter and Reconciliation’s Rites 128 Conclusion 164 Notes 171 Bibliography 193
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