Title: Conditional tense : memory and vocabulary : after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission /
Authors: Krog, Antjie
Year: 2013
Subjects: South Africa.; Literature and society South Africa History; Literature and society South Africa History; South Africa Social conditions Sources.
Contents: Unlearning the past while trying to live with harmed tongues -- Ways of knowing Mrs Konile : TRC and the problem of translation -- Revisiting Mrs Konile : the problem of knowing -- Archive voices : refiguring three women's testimonies delivered to the TRC -- Shards, memory and the mileage of myth -- Redefinition and the battlefield of guilt and shame -- 'This thing called reconciliation' : forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness -- The letters in the body : manifestations of interconnectedness and an indigenous humanism -- A vocabulary of grace -- Suske en Wiske : sequential comic panels and the iconization of Nelson Mandela -- Reading with skin : liberalism, race and power in J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron and Disgrace -- Pieces in the anatomy of loss.