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Narrative and Healing in the Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 27, Number 1, Winter 2004
- pp. 145-162
- 10.1353/bio.2004.0041
- Article
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission generated the extraordinary hope that individual testimonies would bring about national catharsis. This article asks whether narrative structure, shaped by the language and rituals of the church, psychotherapy, and nation-building, encourages an orientation towards the future that sanctions forgetting as well as remembering.