The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking

The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking

The article retrospectively considers the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s main assumptions and procedures concerning truth-seeking, narration and, by implication, healing, forgiveness and reconciliation, in the problematizing light that J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susanna Zinato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2019-06-01
Series:Iperstoria
Subjects:
coetzee
torture
post-colonial literature
Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/560

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