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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark SandersPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 71.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9780804756150ISBN 10: 0804756155 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 26 September 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 Truth Commission Journal and Notes 2 Remembering Apartheid 3 Hearing Women 4 Forgiveness 5 Reparation 6 Literature and Testimony Epilogue Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe book is a significant contribution not only to the study of the TRC and (post)apartheid culture, but also to the postcolonial critique of legal and literary practices in their deep interconnectedness. -Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, H-Net Reviews Mark Sanders shows a brilliant capacity for theoretical sophistication, careful elucidation of literary and non-literary discourses, and subtle analysis of the rhetorics and faultlines of South Africa's languages. In Ambiguities of Witnessing, he persuasively demonstrates that literature and law, though seemingly opposed, are inextricably imbricated with one another. This book seals his reputation as a leading voice in Southern African studies and as an important contributor to discussions about the nature of the literary and its relation to the legal, the political, and the ethical. -Derek Attridge, University of York Ambiguities of Witnessing is an important publication in the post-apartheid South African literary scene-and well beyond it too. -Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies Mark Sanders shows a brilliant capacity for theoretical sophistication, careful elucidation of literary and non-literary discourses, and subtle analysis of the rhetorics and faultlines of South Africa's languages. In Ambiguities of Witnessing, he persuasively demonstrates that literature and law, though seemingly opposed, are inextricably imbricated with one another. This book seals his reputation as a leading voice in Southern African studies and as an important contributor to discussions about the nature of the literary and its relation to the legal, the political, and the ethical. - Derek Attridge, University of York Author InformationMark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid (2002) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory(2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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