International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on June 6, 2008
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2008 2(2):245-247; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijn008
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Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission, Mark Sanders
Emeritus Professor of Political Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. andre.dutoit@uct.ac.za
Stanford University Press, November 2007, 257pp. ISBN: 0804756155 - hardcover ($60)
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As a contribution to the burgeoning literature on transitional justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Ambiguities of Witnessing is an idiosyncratic production. The uninitiated reader should not be put off by the deconstructionist theoretical indulgences of the opening chapters, as perseverance is rewarded with perceptive interpretations of such key issues as the TRC's discourse of forgiveness and its unresolved problematic of reparations.
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